The insect's lack of wings wasn't the only surprising discovery. The beetle also had no elytra, which are a beetle's tough, hardened forewings that make up a kind of shell on its back.

Beetle wings are often hidden. Nestled behind armored shields on the beetle’s back, they unfurl in whirring sheets, whisking their clumsy owners from danger. Beetles don’t have more than two ...

A material inspired by a desert beetle's trick for extracting water from the air could have a range of novel engineering applications, its developers say. It could be used to make self ...

LOS ANGELES — Charlize Theron’s evil queen costumes for Snow White & the Huntsman called for hundreds of hand-cut rooster feathers, thousands of iridescent beetle wings from Thailand and one ...