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 ...

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 ...

The tiny waste harvesters use the Milky Way as a guide to roll their dung meals away to safety. Now researchers say the beetles take "snapshots"... It's not easy being a dung beetle. Besides the ...

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On the plains of South Africa, an army of dung beetles recycle the dung of large mammals. In Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve on the plains of South Africa, an army of dung beetles does one of the ...

The humble dung beetle makes its living rolling big balls of excrement to feed its offspring and itself. But this lowly occupation doesn't mean the insect doesn't have its eye on the skies—even when ...

When Cristina Ledón-Rettig first noticed worms in the little balls of poop, she thought something had gone wrong. Ledón-Rettig studies dung beetles, and she breeds one species—the taurus scarab—in her ...

When a Cape buffalo goes down in South Africa, lions, hyenas, and painted dogs will soon arrive to fight over the carcass. But what most people don’t realize is that the same thing happens every time ...

PINE RIVER, Minn. — On a cloud covered August afternoon, a group of about 20 farmers, ranchers, scientists and just plain curious folks had their eyes to the ground ...

Marcus Byrne receives funding from The National Research Foundation, South Africa. Claudia Tocco does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...