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 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 ...

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 — ...

“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 ...

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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Count Pierre Dejean may have been a general in Napoleon Bonaparte's army, but he was perhaps more intimidating as a beetle collector. By the time he died in 1845, Dejean had amassed a daunting ...

One Friday afternoon this December, I showed up unannounced at the Academy of Natural Sciences with camera in hand. I challenged myself to work with the museum’s collection managers, curators and ...

About 100 million years ago, a tiny beetle flew into a coniferous tree and became engulfed in its resin. Though the tree fell to ruin in a time long forgotten, a drop of its resin fossilized into ...