Like all insects, beetles have six jointed legs, a head, thorax and abdomen. They are generally characterised by a particularly hard exoskeleton and hard forewings. The beetle's exoskeleton is made up ...

Wildfires consume all and leave little more than ashes in their wake—but that’s hardly enough to stop these animals from ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating ...

Based on the ratio of body weight to strength, the dung beetle is not only the strongest insect but the strongest animal in the world, pound-for-pound. It can pull over 1,000 times its body weight.

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, ...

Every animal is counted, big and small, from huge African elephants to tiny fruit beetles [West Midlands Safari Park] When it comes to some of the minibeasts, such as fruit beetles and cockroaches, ...

One of the world’s best insect undertakers is making a comeback. Populations of the American burying beetle, North America’s largest carrion beetle, have been decimated due mainly to habitat ...

A cute fuzzy beetle, a sea squirt that looks like a cross between a panda and a zebra, and a piranha-like fish that's vegetarian: These are just a few of the new species formally identified in 2024.

West Midlands Safari Park Every animal is counted, big and small, from huge African elephants to tiny fruit beetles When it comes to some of the minibeasts, such as fruit beetles and cockroaches ...

Safari park animal keepers have carried out a new year count of all their animals, from the tallest giraffes to colonies of the smallest fruit beetles. Annual tallies are carried out at all ...