While working as a curatorial assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, Eli Wyman learned about a very unusual bee that was presumed to be extinct. The bee, Megachile Pluto, also known as ...

An international team of scientists and conservationists has announced the finding of what many consider to be the 'holy grail' of bee discoveries - Wallace's giant bee. The bee (Megachile pluto) is ...

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A photographer on a quest to capture an image of the elusive world's largest bee found success while retracing the steps of famous anthropologist Alfred Russel Wallace, who jointly published some ...

Imagine a bee that is as at least an inch and a half long, has a tongue that's nearly an inch long with a giant pair of mandibles. If you haven’t already run away screaming, what if this mythical ...