February 29, 2012
Writing in the journal Nature this week, KU entomologist Michael Engel and an international research team have described the oldest definitive fleas to date: giant fleas from the Middle Jurassic and...
February 7, 2012
A University of Kansas researcher and scientists from China and the United Kingdom have again played what may be the world’s oldest love song.
Using an exquisitely preserved mid-Jurassic...
December 27, 2011
Crystal Maier, a graduate student in entomology, was singled out in a Lawrence Journal-World column for her work on Hydroscapha redfori, a beetle named for director and actor Robert Redford. To find...
September 7, 2011
Ad Astra Kansas has chosen Caroline Chaboo, entomology curator, as one of the 150 scientists it is honoring in 2011. The selected scientists -- both past and present -- and their contributions are...
August 1, 2011
Caroline Chaboo regularly fields phone calls and emails from homeowners, gardeners and even U.S. customs officials who ask her to help identify bugs. The University of Kansas entomologist is a...
July 13, 2011
A National Science Foundation (NSF) program that aims to bring "dark data" to the light has funded four research programs - two of them tied to the KU Biodiversity Institute. Craig...
June 16, 2011
The National Science Foundation has announced a $5 million grant for "Digitization TCN: InvertNet--An Integrative Platform for Research on Environmental Change, Species Discovery and...
April 19, 2011
At the annual spring meeting of the Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society, several Biodiversity Institute and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology students received awards for their research....
October 25, 2010
A pseudo-scorpion found in the amber.
KU Biodiversity Institute scientists Michael Engel and Jennifer Thomas co-authored a recently-released publication that sheds new light on the...
September 15, 2010
A recent Rapid Assessment Program, or RAP, in the rainforest of Suriname may have yielded about 30 animal species previously unrecorded, from tiny aquatic insects to a new species of rat. Sponsored...
