Spider dung beetles thought to be a only example of animals other than humans working together without knowing object’s destination There comes a time in a dung beetle’s life when the only hope of ...

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 ...

Dung beetles use their dung balls to stay cool as they push a weight up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies across the hot sand, researchers have found. As the beetles roll their balls to avoid ...

Keeping cool Dung beetles wearing tiny silicon boots have let scientists in on a long-guarded secret - they use the balls of manure they collect as mobile air conditioning units. The ground ...

Dung beetles may not have the most glamorous name or lifestyle, but they are essential for the ecology of agricultural ...

Here’s a dung beetle, sitting on a ball of poo that it made earlier, wearing a pair of adorable insulating mitts. We’ll get to the mitts later… The dung beetle, Scarabaeus nigroaeneus, as its name ...

A small team of biologists and animal scientists from Lund University in Sweden, working with a colleague from the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa, has discovered that pairs of ...

A road sign in Bursa, Turkey, warns drivers of the presence of dung beetles, stating 'Attention! It may come out, don't crush it please!' Ugur Ulu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images If the TV series ...

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 ...

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 and ...