SAN LUIS VALLEY — Among exotic bugs facing mortal threats, few appear better set to survive than the Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle, an aggressive carnivore uniquely adapted to endure super ...

Additionally, the park and preserve have several endemic insect species not found anywhere else, like the Great Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle. Eighteen Native tribes have historic ties to the land ...

GREAT SAND DUNES -- At first glance ... While not as flashy as the tiger beetle, the circus beetle is another endemic oddity found only in the dunes. Its narrow range is probably a good thing ...

Great Sand Dunes tiger beetles, I learned, are found nowhere else on the planet. In fact, because of it's rareness and colourful body, the half-inch-long beetle has become something of a local ...

Though scientists can’t definitively say how old the sand dunes are at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve in southcentral Colorado (about 2.5 hours from Colorado Springs and nearly four ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not protect four species of sand dune beetle under the Endangered Species Act. For more environmental news, click here to read Courthouse News ...