Finding an endangered or otherwise rare species in the wild can be very challenging for scientists, but hunting down something as small as a bee after nearly three decades of presumed extinction? Well ...

In January 2019, a clan of scientists and conservationists tramped through the torrid Indonesian forest in search of the Wallace's giant bee — a species that hadn't been spotted alive since 1981.

Discovered more than 160 years ago by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, the bee vanished from view for decades, ...

Wallace's giant bee, a colossal solitary insect from Indonesia, has been rediscovered after decades of absence. This ...

(WSVN) - A gigantic bee that has not been seen in decades has recently been rediscovered in the wild. According to the Global Wildlife Conservation, the Megachile pluto, also known as Wallace’s giant ...

The last time Megachile pluto was seen was in 1981. 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 ...

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 ...

The world’s largest known bee, the Wallace’s giant bee, has been photographed and filmed in Indonesia’s North Maluku archipelago alive for the first time. Wallace’s giant bee is listed as data ...

Updated at 6:40 a.m. Friday You might think the world's biggest bee would be easy to find. But that's not the case: Until recently, the last time anyone had reported seeing a Wallace's giant bee ...

Lost to science for decades and thought perhaps extinct, Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto) has been rediscovered in an Indonesian rainforest. An international team of scientists and ...