Deep in the bowels of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley sits a large cabinet many people would rather not open. You smell it before you see it: an odor so ...

CAMBRIDGE – One August day in 1922, 7-year-old David Rockefeller plucked up an inch-long brown beetle with pinching jaws and put it in a jar to bring home, the first specimen of an enduring vocation ...

Eudicella, a genus in the scarab beetle family, is part of a group known as flower beetles. This specimen was collected in what used to be known as the Gold Coast region of West Africa. This ...

A close up of the colorful beetle species Darwinilus sedarisi. (Natural History Museum (London)) A brightly colored beetle collected by Charles Darwin more than 180 years ago has been identified as a ...

A researcher discovered an interesting tiger beetle in the Midwestern State University insect collection. The MSU Texas collection, featuring specimens collected by the late Walter Dalquest, is ...

“What we did not know is that Livingstone’s expedition collected proper scientific specimens of beetles, and that these had survived,” says Barclay. Before the box was discovered, curators knew of ...

Sitting for almost 20 years in the Natural History Museum, London, minute rove beetle specimens of a new genus were discovered. The genus, caught in the 90s in the Brazilian Amazon, shows remarkable ...

The worlds of art and science often intersect these days — and that’s especially apparent in “Beauty and the Beetle” at Yale Peabody Museum, on display through Aug. 6. On display in “Beauty and the ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's ...

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A brightly colored beetle collected by Charles Darwin more than 180 years ago has been identified as a new species after hiding in museum storage for decades. The discovery of Darwinilus sedarisi — ...