Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles, or mouth parts. It had perished fairly high up, having ...

Another terrifying insect? A six-legged larvae that can slurp up fish and fully grown bullfrogs was found at a Montana national park, officials say. Called a “water tiger,” the predaceous diving ...

People first crossed the line between land and sea to become scuba divers more than 70 years ago, when Jacques Cousteau pioneered the Aqua-Lung in Nazi-occupied France. But humans aren’t the only ...

J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon hatching,” Entomol Sci, 22:393–97, 2019. While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians ...

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Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles, or mouth parts. It had perished fairly high up, having ...