You probably don’t spend much time thinking about dung beetles, but maybe you should! Because it turns out they might be able ...

Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before. It’s hard for the naked eye to register the visual splendor of ...

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The unappreciated dung, or scarab beetle, an insect that evolved about 130 million years ago, must accomplish its nocturnal task under increasingly difficult conditions; chief among them, light ...

Watch as a dung beetle surfaces from underground. Discover more about this fascinating insect and its unique life cycle. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is ...

In the sweltering New Mexico summer heat, a “small but mighty” invertebrate works relentlessly. In a video shared by Carlsbad Caverns National Park in an Aug. 13 Facebook post, it shows a small, ...

The next time you happen to be strolling through the forests of Central America, you might spot something that seems like it belongs in a sci-fi film… or a jewelry store. It’s a beetle so shiny it ...

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 ...

At 11 years old, our daughter Cady has been to more countries than I had by the time I was 50. She’s watched beetles rolling dung in the dust in Etosha, explored Roman ruins at Vindolanda and ...