Dung beetles prefer the smelliest poop they can find, new research on the insects suggests. Odorous dung from omnivores, which eat a diet of both plants and animals, seems to be the most attractive to ...

Locating and Working on a Dung Pat Most dung beetles are looking for the manure of herbivores because they excrete a lot of undigested food in their poop. It’s basically a pile of undigested grass and ...

The many people who toil in the museum's sprawling basement are a rather rare species themselves. They can be identified mostly by their discoveries, pranks and puns. So please forgive Gunter's ...

In a fossilized chunk of ancient reptilian poo, scientists have uncovered complete specimens of a new beetle species. The finding, described June 30 in Current Biology, suggests that fossilized dung ...

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 ...

Field trips in search of dung beetles have taken Christian Deschodt, a doctoral student at the University of Pretoria, across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. But it was on his regular walk on a ...

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 ...

Gimo Mazembe Daniel receives funding from the National Geographic Society through a research grant (EC-83071R-21). Mount Mabu in north central Mozambique supports the largest continuous block of ...

Researchers from ATREE said the world has over 5,000 dung beetle species, of which 500 are in India and 130 in Bengaluru. BENGALURU: A tiny, yet an important insect that plays a silent but significant ...

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, ...

Yes, that’s a serious scientific question, especially now that animals are moving into unfamiliar territories and bringing their poop along with them. After two years and over 9,000 dung beetles, I ...

ECOSYSTEMS ARE complex things, and monitoring their health is hard. To track every species would be impossible, so ecologists commonly focus on those that, like canaries in coal mines, are thought to ...