ALERT: There’s a top secret crew cleaning up the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Meet nature’s tiniest janitors - dermestid beetles! These incredible insects have the grossest (but ...

The Royal Ontario Museum employs dermestid beetles to help with their research, but those aren't the only spooky creatures ...

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is filled with dead animal specimens. Specimens are like a time capsule of information of the living ecosystem, telling a story about how a species ...

Some of the strangest Smithsonian Institution employees toil around the clock in a windowless room the size of a walk-in closet. Their job: to eat the flesh from the bones of dead animals. The ...

DEER LODGE — Trina Kent caught a big whiff of the meat-eating beetles’ distinctive aroma and set a boundary or two. “I said, ‘I will do everything else, the billing and the Internet stuff, but I’m ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- The steel building where Allen Edberg works on furs is lit by only two light bulbs dangling on long cords from the ceiling. When you enter on a bright winter day, you will need to ...

NORTH PLATTE -- Hunters take pride in the animals they harvest and putting them on display is something many folks like to do. However, some methods are quite expensive and the process is long for a ...

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If videos of the creepiest creatures and fungi aren’t on your YouTube Halloween watchlist, then you’re missing out. KQED’s award-winning wildlife series Deep Look gives viewers an up-close look at the ...

New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit. New fossils in amber have ...