There's a lovely little segment involving a very determined dung beetle. This little critter is dragging and rolling a little ball of dung along the ground, when it unfortunately gets caught on a ...

Dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world. They also possess an exceptional ability to cooperate. Research ...

Nebraska wildlife photographer and conservationist Joel Sartore has received the unusual honor of having a new beetle species ...

The Egyptian beetle, or Scarabaeus sacer, is a dung beetle that lives in a variety of environments, from the desert to the ...

Dung beetles use the Milky Way at night to navigate. Engineers have used the same technique to develop an AI sensor for navigation in low light. An insect species that evolved 130 million years ...

Last month, I wrote about how much I love dung beetles. But the Egyptians even worshipped them! The scarab beetle, the mystical religious symbol of the ancient Egyptians, is a dung beetle.

The weirdest beetles, in my opinion, are dung beetles. Some of them roll large balls of poo around. In relation to its size, ...

Do you know why dung beetles roll balls of poo, or how they find their way? Discover all you need to know about these fascinating insects. What is a dung beetle? Dung beetles get their name from their ...

Researchers from ATREE said the world has over 5,000 dung beetle species, of which 500 are in India and 130 in Bengaluru. BENGALURU: A tiny, yet an important insect that plays a silent but ...

It took almost two centuries for the explanation to emerge: Australian dung beetles, more used to marsupial droppings than those from cattle, left the deposits where they lay. It was only when ...

An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago is the inspiration for a new research study to improve navigation systems in drones, robots, and orbiting satellites. An insect species that ...