A zookeeper shows off an American burying beetle at the St. Louis Zoo. Their staff is working to conserve this threatened species. American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them ...

Deep in the rainforests of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, a deceptively simple field technique helped reveal beetles that ...

A flightless Japanese beetle is evolving slender and stout builds on one island, a sign that new species can arise without ...

Figeater beetles get their name because of their love of figs, but what other fruits do they eat? Read here to learn more.

European Black oil beetle larva lures unsuspecting bees by manufacturing smells that mimic floral scents, new research ...

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Hercules beetles can produce a distinctive whirring noise when distressed, making one of the world’s largest beetles sound ...

One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant reptiles trod: Male beetles using their ...

How has offspring dependence on parents evolved over the course of evolution? Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, in ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...

The research began when the natural history museum at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad started running out of freezer space due to a steady flow of donated roadkill and injured birds. "We don't have ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...