Compare the beetle to an egg if it had an interlocking mesh shell, suggested Rivera, wherein the yolk remains safely encased in the clear albumen. “You can compress the shell without the yolk ...

The diabolical ironclad beetle has strategies to circumvent these limitations," said David Restrepo, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio who worked on this project as ...

The diabolical ironclad beetle is tough, and not only by name. New research reveals that getting run over by a car is not even a near-death experience for this bug. The study, led by engineers at ...

The diabolical ironclad beetle is like a tiny tank on six legs. This insect’s rugged exoskeleton is so tough that the beetle can survive getting run over by cars, and many would-be predators don ...

The beetle's exoskeleton is so tough it has even presented some issues for entomologists hoping to display them -- it's difficult to put a pin through the ironclad.

These include the Texas ironclad beetle, the colorful tiger beetle, and the active scarab beetle. A tiger beetle. Photo by Alex Wild. With over 360,000 described species, beetles are a diverse group ...

A CT scan of the diabolical ironclad beetle shows how its organs are spaced beneath a super-tough exoskeleton. University of California, Irvine Millions of years ago, most beetles flew, Zavattieri ...

The diabolical ironclad beetle has strategies to circumvent these limitations," said David Restrepo, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio who worked on this project as ...

If ever there were an insect deserving of superhero status, it’d be the diabolical ironclad beetle. Native to Southern California desert habitats, this beetle looks a bit like a rock, and its ...

If ever there were an insect deserving of superhero status, it’d be the diabolical ironclad beetle. Native to Southern California desert habitats, this beetle looks a bit like a rock, and its ...

If ever there were an insect deserving of superhero status, it’d be the diabolical ironclad beetle. Native to Southern California desert habitats, this beetle looks a bit like a rock, and its ...