Two individuals fighting over a dung ball sounds like a metaphor for a bad love triangle. For dung beetles, though, it’s survival. Dung is a valuable resource, used as food and as a nursery for beetle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate change.

On an African savanna, an elephant’s presence can be measured in ways that have little to do with the animal itself. Beneath the shade of acacia trees and across open grasslands, enormous quantities ...

I finally visited the "Naramachi Dung Beetle Museum" in Nara, a place I had wanted to go to for a long time!It is located ...

Dung beetle behaviour has fascinated humans for thousands of years – including the ancient Egyptians, who incorrectly believed the beetles reproduced only from males. But Egyptian observations that ...

On an unseasonably warm fall morning in early November, Erin McCullough strides through Hadwen Arboretum — a small patch of woodland in Worcester in central Massachusetts. We walk through swirls of ...

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields. Now to a search for dung beetles ...

If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers. They eat ...

"Surprisingly, the timing and diversification of dung beetles is correlated with the ecological dominance of angiosperms," said lead author Dr. Nicole Gunter, invertebrate zoology collections manager ...

As Midgley noted, in a press release that accompanied the Ceratocaryum study, “We still have much to learn about the dynamics of such fecal mimicry.” He is curious, for instance, how the hoax would ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...