{"id":699062,"date":"2021-08-14T04:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699062"},"modified":"2021-08-14T04:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T08:09:53","slug":"is-it-cheaper-to-be-bigger-lessons-from-the-extreme-weapons-of-giraffe-weevil-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699062","title":{"rendered":"Is it cheaper to be bigger? Lessons from the extreme weapons of giraffe weevil warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepalese craftsman, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, holds the record as the world&#8217;s shortest adult, at 54.6 cm (1 ft 9 \u00bd inches). The tallest human is Sultan K\u00f6sen, a Turkish farmer, almost five times taller at 2.52 meters (8 feet 3 \u00bc inches). In nature, size differences among males of a single species are not uncommon, but in a new paper, a team from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), The University of Auckland and the University of Arizona, discovered a case of male beetles that are not only extremely different in size, but also provide an answer to long-standing puzzle in evolutionary biology: how can larger animals afford the energetic cost of making and maintaining disproportionately large weapons?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-cheaper-bigger-lessons-extreme-weapons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Is it cheaper to be bigger? Lessons from the extreme weapons of giraffe weevil warriors<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepalese craftsman, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, holds the record as the world&#8217;s shortest adult, at 54.6 cm (1 ft 9 \u00bd inches). The tallest human is Sultan K\u00f6sen, a Turkish farmer,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}