Up until now, scientists believed that the world's smallest beetle couldn't fly. They suspected the featherwing beetle, which is less than one-third of a millimetre long, had to be carried by the wind ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After months of grueling tests, a species of horned dung beetle takes the title for world's ...

There is, despite the name, nothing urban about Piper City, Ill. It is a farm town with a skyline of grain elevators, a tidy grid of pitch-roofed houses and, a few blocks beyond, endless fields: corn, ...

A RARE beetle thought until recently to have died out in Britain has been found living in numbers on a Scottish island. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

Professor of Ecology, The Rivers State University of Science and Technology One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous ...