There are so many different species of beetles, each with its own unique appearance and set of traits. Among all these beetles, have you ever heard of the great diving beetle? As its name suggests, ...

When an insect is this small, it seems to be able to get away with an unusual technique for taking in oxygen. By Veronique Greenwood The tiny swimming beetles of the Australian desert live ...

Blathers' Blabber: Diving beetles swim using thick, hairy hind legs and clean the water by eating dead insects. They store a supply of air under their wings to breathe underwater and surface to ...

The known range of the narrow-footed Hygrotus diving beetle, which also can fly, is in central Wyoming, in the Powder River Basin and one site in the Wind River Basin. The sites are small, ...

When ecologist Jose Valdez and his team released 10,000 tadpoles to populate a new conservation site in Newcastle, Australia, they surrounded the area with a mesh fence to keep out hungry snakes, ...

When it comes to objects floating in the bathtub, most of us expect to see, at most, a rubber ducky. But in 1984, a couple outside of Salem, Oregon (map), discovered tiny beetles floating in the water ...

HAYS COUNTY, Texas — A beetle found in two Central Texas counties will not be considered a threatened and/or endangered species, as categorized by the Endangered Species Act. According to the U.S.

University of Wyoming researchers are shedding light on a rare aquatic beetle native only to central Wyoming. Lusha Tronstad, lead invertebrate zoologist with the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, a ...

You can't always count on finding water above ground in Australia. Some rivers flow through the sand beneath their beds and arid calcite crusts in Western Australia seal off water trapped in permeable ...