Two new worm species that no human had ever documented were found living inside a glass sponge on the deep ocean floor off Japan’s coast. The sponge itself — a translucent, me ...

Bumblebees can breathe underwater by surrounding themselves with an air pocket that acts like a diving bell, scientists ...

The Shakira wasp is a parasite of caterpillars, feeding and developing inside them and causing them to bend and twist their abdomens in a distinctive way, which reminded lead author Scott Shaw and ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially powerful weapon and Shaun Forgie is a ...

This leaf beetle looks amazing, but does like to chomp through - yes you guessed it - asparagus plants. Asparagus beetles, or Crioceris asparagi, are amazingly colourful, however, and despite them ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant colonies. But it comes with a catch. Once a rove ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests do not align with the published research on the interaction between dead ...

University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on their doorstep. However, that is exactly what happened when a research team ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Spotting lots of ladybugs coming out of cracks and holes in your home as the autumn chill settles in? These are not the seven-spotted ones that Tennessee adores. The beetles ...