Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yes, professor, Pokémon are real. Or at least, they can be if you name a new beetle species after the iconic pocket monsters. That ...

The Legendary Birds from the original Pokemon games have received an unexpected new honor. Earlier this year, Dr. Darren Pollack and Yun Hsiao named three newly discovered beetle species after ...

Researchers have discovered a dung beetle that may be evolving into separate species in a few decades rather than thousands or millions of years. Separated geographically, sub-populations of the ...

PUNA, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - An invasive new pest is starting to spread, and agriculture experts say it’s attacking crops in some areas of the Big Island. There is no common name for Acalolepta ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia has detected the larvae of khapra beetles in imported nappies sold in supermarkets nationwide, the agriculture ministry said, raising concerns the pest could infest ...

Dung beetles play an important role helping clear up all the dung left by other animals in an environment. In Australia there are approximately 475 native species of dung beetle. But there’s a problem ...

The Australian fire beetle is attracted to freshly burnt wood. Experts also call this pyrophilia ("love of fire"). This behavior is not very common in insects. Merimna atrata however has a good reason ...

Yes, professor, Pokémon are real. Or at least, they can be if you name a new beetle species after the iconic pocket monsters. That's the lesson Darren Pollock, a professor of biology at Eastern New ...