Countless species of insects have been around for hundreds of millions of years, including pests like cockroaches and beetles. More specifically, the rove beetle (Staphylinidae) — which has over ...

Who is the beetle that can fold its delicate wings into an origami shape, keeping them safely tucked away as it scampers through dirt and debris? Scientists have long been fascinated by the intricate ...

Rove beetles are among the chemists of the insect world, concocting noxious compounds within their bodies that are weaponized to ward off predators, enabling the beetles to survive in leaf litter and ...

This particular specimen is part of the staphylinid rove beetles, dating back to the Cretaceous period, around 90 million years ago. The new research, published in the Journal of Entomological Science ...

Scientists have discovered and described a rove beetle that is the oldest definitive member of the tribe Omaliini that has ever been found in amber. An international team of scientists from Spain, ...

There are many more species of fish (about 28,000 species) than of any other kind of vertebrate (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals). And there are about 30,000 species of orchid, in a single ...

new video loaded: How This Beetle Evolved to Mimic Ants transcript [music] This is the story of the tiny rove beetle — a little-studied insect that mimics ants and termites to live in and prey on ...

Marauding across the forest floor, aggressive army ant colonies harbor hidden enemies in their ranks -- parasitic beetles. Through dramatic changes in body shape, behavior, and pheromone chemistry, ...

Images and measurements of the fossil beetle that revealed it was a different kind of beetle than originally thought. Martin Fikáček et al. The most diverse family of animals on the planet just got a ...

Mooching roommates are an ancient problem. Certain species of beetles evolved to live with and leech off social insects such as ants and termites as long ago as the mid-Cretaceous, two new beetle ...