High-flyin' bugs: Extreme bumblebees can scale Mount Everest
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 21:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The bumblebee has earned a reputation as an unlikely flier, ever since one French entomologist incorrectly argued in the 1930s that the chubby insects defy the laws of physics when they stay in the air. As anyone who's seen one can tell, the bugs can wing it like pros.