The many people who toil in the museum's sprawling basement are a rather rare species themselves. They can be identified mostly by their discoveries, pranks and puns. So please forgive Gunter's ...

Researchers studying scarab beetle DNA have revealed that dung eaters were around in the Lower Cretaceous 115 million years ago, or 30 million years earlier than we thought. Dung beetles may have ...

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 ...

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 ago is ...

Anyone who has walked through a barn or cattle pasture in the summer knows that flies are a nuisance and even a health hazard. Face flies can spread diseases like pink eye to cattle, and horn ...

Dung beetles are interesting creatures, but not in the way most people think. A recent study in the journal Current Biology revealed something even more surprising than their usual behaviors: dung ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Different species of African dung beetles emerge from the soil at characteristic times of the day to fly and colonize the freshly-deposited ...