No matter how good a design humans have come up with, chances are nature has beaten us to it, and done a better job to boot. The latest innovation to join that list is lubricant, with researchers ...

Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before. It’s hard for the naked eye to register the visual splendor of ...

The diabolical ironclad beetle is so tough that engineers are hoping to copy features of its exoskeleton to design stronger and more robust structures. “You can run these things over with a car and ...

An undergraduate student has just published a description of 18 new species of aquatic water beetle from the genus Chasmogenus. It would be striking for a seasoned entomologist with decades of ...