in relation to its size the dung beetle is not only the world’s strongest insect – it’s the world’s strongest animal! On average, dung beetles can roll a ball of 50 times their own weight.

(KY3) - As temperatures drop, Asian lady beetles are moving indoors to find a warm place to spend the winter, posing potential risks to curious pets. Curious animals like dogs and cats may sniff ...

Bombardier beetles have the infamous ability to synthesize and release rapid bursts of stinky, burning-hot liquid from their rear ends. These noxious emissions can kill other insects, or startle ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, ...

Like all insects, beetles have six jointed legs, a head, thorax and abdomen. They are generally characterised by a particularly hard exoskeleton and hard forewings. The beetle's exoskeleton is made up ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...

Based on the ratio of body weight to strength, the dung beetle is not only the strongest insect but the strongest animal in ...

Safari park animal keepers have carried out a new year count of all their animals, from the tallest giraffes to colonies of ...

One of the world’s best insect undertakers is making a comeback. Populations of the American burying beetle, North America’s largest carrion beetle, have been decimated due mainly to habitat ...

But it's what we would consider a fog desert, a place where fog is the main water source for plant and animal life, like the Namib Desert beetle. At first glance, this group of beetles would seem ...

Beetles - a group of insects also known as Coleoptera - make up more than a quarter of all known animal species on our planet. Many of these insects play important roles in their ecosystems. While we ...