While this might look like the pattern on a quilt, this is actually a magnified image of the pattern on the hardened forewings of a beetle. These wings are not used for flying but instead protect the ...

LOS ANGELES — Charlize Theron’s evil queen costumes for Snow White & the Huntsman called for hundreds of hand-cut rooster feathers, thousands of iridescent beetle wings from Thailand and one ...

thousands of iridescent beetle wings from Thailand and one particularly imposing crown. The outfits, some of which are on view at a Los Angeles pop-up gallery ahead of the film's Friday opening ...

Species: Most likely Dictyoptera simplicipes (Several red net-winged beetle species look similar.) Appearance: Elongated with bright red wing covers. Black antennae. Distribution: Pacific ...

Roughly twice the size of a beetle and weighing slightly more than a CD (18 grams), the microrobot’s rapid, insectlike movements draw from research into how beetles deploy their wings.

Featherwing beetles are some of the world’s smallest flying insects. Yet they can rocket along with the speed and agility of much larger insects. Now, scientists have figured out how the beetles ...

For some,VW’s Beetle got a little too close to its feminine side in the 1990s. The Love Bug’s latest metamorphosis, however, dispels any such concerns, says Jim McCauley It was the brainchild ...

The Namib desert beetle, which lives on the parched sands of southwest Africa, collects drinking water using its wings, which are ... causes water to zip from one side of the material to the ...