COLUMBIA — It mates for life, raises its young as a couple, can detect a dead animal two miles away within an hour of death and bury it up to a foot below the ground.
Endangered beetle awaits reintroduction in southwest Missouri
Thursday, February 9, 2012 | 1:17 p.m. CST;
updated 10:52 a.m. CST, Monday, February 13, 2012
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