The dung beetle is the first and only non-human animal known to use light from the Milky Way for navigation. African dung ...

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There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...

Very few Burke Museum visitors realize that thousands of secret workers are helping make the museum's animal specimen ...

At least 37 giant live beetles measuring 4 to 5 inches have been found concealed inside of multiple packages of Japanese snacks, potato chips and chocolate at LAX.

The discovery, published today (August 16) in Current Biology, of a beetle fossilized in Burmese amber together with grains of cycad pollen reveals that the relationship between these plants and ...

The tough-bodied creatures make up about a quarter of all animal species. Many biologists have wondered the same thing, for a long time. “Darwin was a beetle collector,” Chaboo notes.

But it's what we would consider a fog desert, a place where fog is the main water source for plant and animal life, like the Namib Desert beetle. At first glance, this group of beetles would seem ...

There isn’t much data available to the wider public on the Calathus lundbladi ground beetle. This elusiveness ... Nature (IUCN)’s Red List, meaning animal conservation experts consider the ...

Debut, a US company producing biotech ingredients for the beauty industry, has announced a breakthrough in the development of animal-free carmine.