A beetle the size of a bird was shot out of sky by a gun-toting Victorian insect collector, museum experts discovered. The ...

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THIS work contains twenty coloured plates, comprising about 500 figures of Coleoptera, which may certainly, in many cases, prove ...

By the time he died in 1845, Dejean had amassed a daunting collection of 24,643 species of beetles and more than 118,000 specimens, some of them scooped up from battlefields. At the time, it was the ...