People bitten by ants usually go berserk, quickly brush them aside,  making sure that they get squished in the process. We get mad, stomp the ant trails and wish them all dead. Though we humans are the highest, most intelligent form of organism, we also have outrageously animalistic tendencies, which is probably why we are on top of the food chain in the first place. Notwithstanding their seemingly just annoying pinch and sting, ants can be considered among the "violent" ones in the animal kingdom.

Millipedes, just like centipedes, are arthropods -- they have bodies made up of numerous segments. Newly hatched millipedes usually have only three pairs of legs, adding legs as they grow. But contrary to what its name may imply, the millipede does not have a thousand legs. In fact, Illacme plenipes which is a very thin millipede and considered to be the world’s leggiest animal only has 750 legs.

MNH Curator for Birds Dr. Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez became the speaker of the College of Development Communication - Department of Science Communication's first ever Café Scientifique. Gonzalez, who is also an associate professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences, shared on “Evolution, Ecology and Ethno-Ornithology as Tools for Conservation."

For his consistent exemplary performance in carrying out his duties and functions as a well-rounded, multi-talented, multi-skilled university worker and public servant at the Museum of Natural History, Ariel R. Larona, Museum Technician I at the UPLB Museum of Natural History was been awarded the 2014 UPLB Outstanding Administrative Personnel Award (technician category) last March 5, 2014 at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City.

How did humans and the environment influence each other over the course of history? This is the gist of the special seminar of Dr. Raul Suarez, a professor at the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and DOST Balik Scientist, held last 26 February at the IBS Main Lecture Hall.

Dr. Suarez' seminar was part of the UPLB Museum of Natural History's regular Biodiversity Seminar Series and co-hosted by the Environmental Biology Division of the Institute of Biological Sciences.

Do you know that every 3rd day of March has been declared by the United Nations General Assembly as World Wildlife Day?

Forty years ago, on March 3, 1973, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora or CITES was adopted 80 countries the meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Washington, USA. As of February 2014, 180 states, the Philippines included, have become signatories to the convention.