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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new north African species of poo-eating dung beetle has been imported into Australia to fill seasonal and geographic gaps and help livestock producers improve pasture health and productivity. Dung ...

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 ...

Landholders could unwittingly be killing some of the most valuable members of their herd by failing to minimise the impact of drenching farm animals for parasites. The beetles play a crucial role in ...

Talk about being dung wrong. A video of a Dr. Manoj Mittal from Haryana, India, has been making the social media rounds. This video showed him walking among cows and then poop there is. He picked up ...

The humble dung beetle is the first insect known to navigate by the stars. Like sailors of old and Saharan nomads, it can orientate itself by watching the sky. On clear nights, a myriad of stars shine ...

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 ...