Fitzgerald says cyborg search and rescue beetles or cockroaches might be able to help in disaster situations by finding and reporting the location of survivors and delivering lifesaving drugs to them ...

If you consider body length alone, however, the titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) is the longer species. These giant insects may look a bit like a cockroach, but they are a species of longhorn beetle - ...

The patient is, in fact, a beetle, and the backpack-like device sends ... where Fitzgerald works is putting control backpacks onto giant burrowing cockroaches, a species native to Australia ...

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The UK’s heaviest beetle, the great silver water beetle is regarded as a gentle giant, rather than an aggressive predator, and mostly scavenges plant material for food. “It was a really ...