It didn't have wings, which is nearly unheard of among beetles. And as Ferreira examined it further, he found it wasn't a prank after all. It was an undiscovered species of beetle, and Ferreira ...

Wings consume a lot of energy, so throughout evolutionary history, many insect species have independently lost the ability to fly. But there are more than a half-million known beetle species ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...