William Parks is a Game Rant editor from the USA. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, William entered the realm of fine arts administration, ...

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 ...

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 (mouthparts). It had perished fairly high up, having ...

Diving beetles (Dytiscidae) maintain the balance of pond ecosystems. They feed on other aquatic organisms, such as mosquito larvae, and form part of the diet of larger animals, including fish, ...

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, ...

This unconventional, yet potentially impactful alternative outcome of sexual conflict was described by scientists from Arizona State University (US), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Lund ...

Diving beetles might be small, but they’ve mastered a trick even humans needed gear to figure out – underwater breathing. In this video, we take a close look at how these incredible insects use ...

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 ...

In nature, males eager attempts to mate with females can be so extreme that they will harm females. Such negative impact of mating interactions has been suggested to promote the emergence of new ...