The finding, spearheaded by Genus postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Sandiso Mnguni and his team, marks the first recorded fossil of a staphylinine rove beetle in Africa and notably, in the Southern Hemisphere.

I saw this lichen on a living tree recently. It was growing well, confirming the clean air of Connemara. Paul Dunne, Co ...

When evening falls, the highly toxic paederus rove beetle (locally called charlie) likes to fly out of the woods towards lights in high-rise buildings. A victim, Rahula Loh, 29, said she always ...

Afristenus orapensis belongs to the stenine rove beetle subgroup while Paleothius mckayi belongs to the subgroup staphylinine. Previously, both the stenine and staphylinine rove beetles had only ...

Here are nine of the strangest... This Argentinian rove beetle is so rare it was named twice. The first name comes from Charles Darwin (who collected the first specimen in 1832). The second is in ...

A rare beetle never previously spotted in Norfolk before has been found by a university student in the south of the county while collecting samples for her dissertation. Cecily Bradbury was ...

A new beetle species, the Paleothius mckayi, has been discovered at Debswana’s Orapa diamond mine in Botswana, the world’s largest diamond mine by area. With this finding, the geographical and ...

Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil?

The discovery marks the first recorded fossil of a staphylinine rove beetle in Africa and in the Southern Hemisphere. This region of Botswana, known for its rich deposits of Cretaceous age ...