Worldwide, there are over 40,000 varieties of beetles. So I narrowed my search down to 'newfoundland ground beetle identification'
https://www.google.com/search?q=newf...w=1152&bih=605
A lot of ground beetles eat seeds and small insects, but not all are good or bad. I did see some pictures that look a lot like the first picture, but all it said was 'ground beetle'.
Yesterday we saw an Iron Clad beetle on a tree. They are very cool looking. This is an Internet picture of one.