“The beetle larvae lived—feeding, defecating, molting—in accumulated feathers on or close to a resin-producing tree, probably in a nest setting.

Beetles may have fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, fossils in amber have revealed. The main amber fragments studied contain the shed skin (larval moults) of small ...

The feather-winged beetles – twice as big as the M.mymaripenne, but still impressively tiny – have drastically reduced the size of their genitals, guts and breathing tubes.

A wide wing stroke combined with lightweight, bristled wings allow the beetles to efficiently propel themselves through the air, researchers report online January 19 in Nature.

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Beetles vary from species that are barely visible (especially the Feather-winged beetles), to large tropical species that are the size of a human hand. Titanus giganteus, a long-horned beetle from ...

They report that the feathers, for instance, have similar widths, lengths and curvatures. After overlaying an outline of the 1861 feather atop a fossil archaeopteryx wing, the team also found that ...

The jaws of a feather-eating beetle larva preserved in ancient amber. Credit: CN-IGME CSIC Millions of years ago, a now-extinct species of beetle snacked on dinosaur feathers 1.

The songbird (Machaeropterus deliciosus) uses these feathers for stridulation, a rubbing mechanism commonly used by insects such as crickets. One feather on each wing has seven ridges along its ...