PHOENIX — A national nonprofit conservation group is pursuing federal protections for a rare beetle only found in southeastern Arizona. The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the ...

A beetle that has been neither here, there nor everywhere since 1966 has been rediscovered after more than half a century. KIP WILL: This one, when I pulled it out, I said, well, that doesn't look ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Willcox Playa tiger beetle under the Endangered Species Act. The rare tiger beetle ...

Beetles chewed holes in hundreds of books at Israel's national library but spared the rare and precious examples -- including the letters of Albert Einstein. The insect, the anobium punctatum, was ...

Bugs give some people the creepy-crawlies. But to Jessa Huebing-Reitinger, they're lovely, awe-inspiring creatures. The Kansas City artist has devoted her career to painting insects on large canvases ...

The next time you happen to be strolling through the forests of Central America, you might spot something that seems like it belongs in a sci-fi film… or a jewelry store. It’s a beetle so shiny it ...