The Salt Creek tiger beetle lives mostly underground, periodically emerging from its burrow to await passing invertebrate victims — sometimes nearly as big as itself — and seize them with its massive ...

True to their name, tiger beetles are ambush predators that pounce on their insect in an aggressive, "tiger-like" manner. They seize their prey with long, sickle-like mandibles, and they are often the ...

Biologist Tadeu de Oliveira remembers well the email that sparked his decade-and-a-half effort to propose a new species of tiger ... beetle experts, who confirmed they'd never seen such a bug ...