The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and ...

A devil-horned bee discovered in Western Australia sheds light on how little we still know about native pollinators. A newly ...

While the bee’s horns may have been enough to inspire the name alone, the lead scientist admitted she was inspired by the popular show Lucifer, which she had been watching on Netflix.

The species was dubbed "Megachile lucifer," after the popular Netflix TV show. Virginia Giuffre's memoir reveals intimate ...

Scientists discover Megachile lucifer, a new Australian bee with tiny, devil-like horns that may help it dig, pack, and ...

Scientists discovered a new species of bee with "demon-like" devil horns, earning it the name "Megachile lucifer." ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

Solitary bee species are major pollinators of wild plants, and there are over 1,500 species in the Megachile genus alone.

“I was super excited to find it,” said Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist who discovered the insect in 2019 as she ...

“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...

Scientists have found a new native bee that they’ve dubbed the Lucifer bee. Megachile Lucifer was found by a researcher as ...

A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh ...