A bit of good luck: A new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago
Monday, June 24, 2013 - 07:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists discovered a new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago. Nicrophorus efferens was discovered when one of the authors, Tonya Mousseau, decided to look through the local museum collections during a holiday in Hawaii. The lucky find is a type of burying beetle, a group of beetles famous among naturalists for their peculiar reproductive habits.