In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...

Drexel University environmental science graduate Jackie Garcia had the opportunity to pursue an independent study during her senior year. She chose Academy scientist and Drexel professor Jon Gelhaus ...

Insects that have not been previously associated with human corpses actually interact with dead human bodies, which may provide clues for forensic entomologists in the future, new research suggests.

Learn more about the science, history, and case studies in the realm of forensic entomology. Review evidence, interviews, and other documents from fictional cases and discuss them with fellow Web ...

Climate change and a reliance on DNA for species identification may be reducing the ability of forensic entomologists to solve crimes. Best known for inferring times of death from the developmental ...

Beetles might precede blowflies (not vice versa, as forensic entomology has long suggested), a finding that could change time of death and other calculations made by crime-scene investigators When a ...

They live in a world of creepy-crawlies, collecting the flies, maggots and beetles that live off the dead. Because it's such a macabre profession, forensic entomology this Halloween season has been ...

Most forensic entomology investigations generally focus on insects such as blow flies or beetles. However, the authors of a new paper have shown that tiny mites can reveal information as well. Most ...

Bernard Greenberg’s study of maggots led to work that would often seem like something out of the pages of a thriller. Greenberg, a retired professor of entomology at the University of Illinois at ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When authorities are responding to a murder, they'll cordon off the crime scene and send in a team of ...