This is cool! And so beautiful!

Creophilus oculatus or devil’s coach horse is a species of large carrion-feeding rove beetle endemic to New Zealand.

“The name “devil’s coach horse” is used for Ocypus olens, another large species of rove beetle found in Europe and North America, so named because of a medieval belief that the Devil took this form to carry away the corpses of sinners. The name probably derived from the threatening appearance of O. olens, which is Britain’s largest rove beetle species.

Creophilus oculatus is a carrion beetle, often been collected from carrion, carrion-baited pitfall traps, or rotting plants, to which it is attracted by smell. The adults are one of the first insect species to arrive at a dead animal. Rather than feed directly on carrion, they consume carrion-feeding insects, especially the maggots of blowflies, and have been observed tearing open flies with their curved jaws to feed on their eggs.These beetles discharge an unpleasant-smelling white substance—described as smelling like “rotten fish”—from glands on their abdomen when threatened.” – Do check out the Wikipedia page for a great read.