A new tiny but devastating invasive Asian beetle was identified this week in Santa Cruz County. The California Department of ...

CHANG: Ooh, very mysterious - I hope this fungus beetle comes back. All right, what is next on your list? LAMBERT: So we'll stick with small creatures - this one in the ocean. CHANG: OK.

and utterly beautiful at the same time. Those aren't some strange arrangement of antennae on a beetle but the fruiting bodies of a "zombie fungus" that has taken control of the insect. Its ...

Fungus and beetles threaten to topple the remarkable whitebark pine. Can tree enthusiasts help the keystone species before it’s too late? Mountaintop living isn’t easy. At very high elevations, the ...

A cute fuzzy beetle, a sea squirt that looks like a cross between a panda and a zebra, and a piranha-like fish that's vegetarian: These are just a few of the new species formally identified in 2024.