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 ...

Read enough about the dung beetle and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining. It is capable of moving many times its own weight in excrement, which it rolls across the ...

It's not easy being a dung beetle. Besides the obvious fact that they eat, well, dung, the act of just getting a meal is an involved process. In the most elaborate carry-out scenario, the dung beetles ...

Let’s get it out of the way: Dung beetles eat poop. They need to eat the poop — all animals need nitrogen to build protein, and dung beetles get their nitrogen from the feces of warm-blooded ...

Deployed on farms, industrious dung beetles clean up livestock waste, improve soil and reduce harmful bacteria. By C. Claiborne Ray A. The thousands of species of voracious beetles in the family ...

On the contrary: Lead like a dung beetle. Seriously. Why am I inspired by the lowly dung beetle? A dung beetle spends most of life with his ass in the air and his head to the ground. He has one ...

Deep in the forest the quiet hum of life reveals tiny wonders as dung beetles roll through the soil and crabs move gently ...

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Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on them, ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...