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 ...

You'd think that the world's biggest bee would be hard to lose track of. But Wallace's Giant Bee — an Indonesian species with a 2.5-inch (6.4 centimeters) wingspan and enormous mandibles — was last ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...