Living on and around poop is not the only remarkable thing about dung beetles. They are also incredibly strong – and there have been scientific experiments to prove it. Laboratory tests on a range of ...

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 ...

Some dung beetles are native to California, but many have been imported to help reduce damage from cattle farming. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge spoke with an entomologist about their role and ...

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 ...