Burying beetles have large club-like antennae equipped with chemoreceptors capable of detecting a dead … See more

Burying beetles are known to commit infanticide at an early stage, which is also known as culling their young. This is done to ensure that the supply of food provided by the carcass is sufficient to nourish all the larvae suffi… See more

As of 2020, the American burying beetle (N. americanus) was reclassified from the endangered category to threatened by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Burying beetles are important to the ecosystem and aid in nutrient rec… See more

As of 2006 there are over 60 valid, extant species in the genus Nicrophorus although a few undescribed species and synonyms remain to be worked up.
• Nicrophorus americanus – (American burying be… See more

• †Nicrophorus pliozaenicus
A fossil of N. humator dating around 10,500 years was reported in 1962 by Pearson. An extinct unnamed member of the genus is known from the Late Cretaceous Cenomanian… See more