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Researchers collected rove beetles in an area of tropical forest in Borneo. Out of the 252 different species of beetle that were recorded, 76% were undescribed by science.
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) is a living tank—one of the strongest, heaviest, and largest insects on the planet. In this video, we build the ultimate rainforest habitat to match its epic ...
Beetles can then be identified by entomologists, to get an idea of how diverse and well-functioning different rainforest environments are. Images by Eleanor Slade, left, and Filipe França.
Beetles are plentiful in the rainforest, and the species that Alejandro Lopera-Toro’s team studies are not endangered. The study does mean that the beetles are killed, but overall, the effect on ...
UK’s largest and rarest beetle, once thought to be extinct, discovered on Dartmoor. Species has declined significantly due to felling of ancient temperate rainforest habitat ...
Insects are to the animal kingdom what the deep sea is to Earth: largely unknown to science. “We think because we know the birds and the mammals that we’ve already discovered what’s on this ...
Incoming Monster Beetle! Clip: Season 5 Episode 16 | 1m 37s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Chris and Martin are in the Rainforest looking for the Hercules Beetle. Aired 02/01/2019 | Rating TV-Y ...
This "warty leaf beetle" from the Amazon rainforest has a rockstar carapace, but an extremely unsettling way of raising its larvae. The post This Amazonian ‘Warty’ Beetle Is Both Weird and ...
For insects, the Amazon’s canopy contains a dazzling multiverse. A new study finds that high in rainforest trees, insects live in ecosystems that vary wildly from the forest floor on up.
A mysterious glowing worm has been discovered lighting up the soil in the Peruvian rainforest. The strange glow worms, which are thought to be the larval stage of an as-yet-unidentified species of ...
A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...
He had been on a hunting trip with four friends in the Amazon rainforest but got separated from his party on Jan. 25. Exactly a month later, last Saturday, he was found by search and rescue teams.