You mightn't think that the life of a dung beetle, a creature who eats poop every day of its short life, could get any worse, but you'd be wrong. Dung beetles, also known as rollers, pretty much live ...

Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say. Dung beetles roll up nutritious balls of excrement up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies ...

Humans and dung beetles, according to new research, share a very special skill. Not rolling animal feces up into a ball and jealously keeping it away from others of their kind — that’s just what the ...

Dung beetle behaviour has fascinated humans for thousands of years – including the ancient Egyptians, who incorrectly believed the beetles reproduced only from males. But Egyptian observations that ...

We all know what to do when life gives you lemons. (I’ll give you a hint: it involves lemonade.) But sometimes life really rears back and lets us have it, and it seems like that’s what is going on in ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To the extent that we think about them at all, people tend to regard dung beetles as ...

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 ...

Researchers have found an evolutionary connection between dinosaurs and dung beetles. Scientists uncovered the first molecular evidence indicating that dung beetles evolved in association with ...