Fossils reveal an ancient relationship between feather-feeding dermestid beetles and their feathered friends, the theropods. What's more appetizing than a mouthful of fluffy feathers? Not much, ...

An underground chamber reachable only by a long passage on the side of Bascom hill is home to flesh-eating beetles, left gnawing at skeletal remains for research. University of Wisconsin’s Department ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's ...

ALERT: There’s a top secret crew cleaning up the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Meet nature’s tiniest janitors - dermestid beetles! These incredible insects have the grossest (but ...

» Adult dermestid or carpet beetles lay eggs that hatch into tiny larva that molt eight times as they feed and grow to about ¾-inch long in 30 days. The larvae, which look a little like maggots except ...

An animal skeleton is made up of hundreds of tiny bones, many of which are too fragile to be handled by human hands. That’s why many osteology departments at museums have a special team exclusively ...

Dermestid Beetles are fast and fastidious eaters. Dermestid Beetles are fast and fastidious eaters. They can pick a carcass clean in just days leaving even the most delicate bone structures intact.

It's a macabre sight - flesh-eating beetles swarming the body of decaying animals, stripping them to the bone. But in fact, researchers at the ‘library of life’ use these Dermestid beetles to help ...

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is filled with dead animal specimens. Specimens are like a time capsule of information of the living ecosystem, telling a story about how a species ...

The meat-eating army ants of Trinidad and other tropical locales are such fierce predators that they're known as "the Huns and Tartars of the insect world." But apparently they're no match for the ...

Eww! What a smelly job. "It's not for everyone," said Jay Eberly, standing in his Manheim shop, making one of the biggest understatements I have heard in some time. Eberly, 52, is an avid archery ...