A secretive creature observed by Darwin has long since been thought extinct, until observers recently spotted a specimen. Here's what happened.

The bombardier beetle has fascinated many, including Charles Darwin, who reported that one of them fired “acid” into his mouth—apparently he placed one in his teeth, unaware of its noxious ...

Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote a short paper about a tiny clam found clamped to the leg of a water beetle in a pond in the English Midlands. It was his last publication.

In the UK, Charles Darwin was once on the receiving end of a chemical defence deployed by a ground beetle species closely related to bombardier beetles. He detailed the experience in a letter to ...

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 ...