At the 2015 New York International Auto Show, Volkswagen took the wraps off a quartet of special-edition Beetles. Each concept has its own unique style and color, and each nods to the Beetle’s past, ...

I was at Heil Ranch, working on a study of mountain pine beetles with my graduate student Scott Ferrenberg, when a brilliantly colored beetle landed on our equipment. I picked it up and confined it ...

Color-changing animals, such as chameleons and squid, typically alter their hues when nerve signals or hormones spur pigment cells in their skin to expand or shrink. The Panamanian golden tortoise ...

On Saturday, you might catch a glimpse of Chris Vallone driving his “pride and joy,” a 1970 VW Beetle convertible that the Congers enthusiast fully restored in 2018 after it had been found rusting ...

NEW YORK -- Volkswagen continues to milk its redesigned Golf small car with variations and concept cars as a way to plug holes in its new-model launch schedule. Concept cars and special edition ...

The leaf beetle, Plateumaris sp., is one of just two such advanced age insect fossils that retain substantial original color molecules. Another beetle, dating to 50 million years ago, also appears to ...

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The ...

Here’s a reason to keep eyes on the skies while dealing with dung on the ground: Variations in the color of light in different parts of the sky can act as a compass, at least if you’re a dung beetle.