Dung Beetle - Part 1 Just recently I saw an amazing movie called Microcosmos. It doesn't really have a plot or a storyline. It's just a series of incredibly detailed close-ups and time lapse ...

If you're a dung beetle, you spend a good portion of your life dancing around on top of a ball made of poop — a ball of poop that, with any luck, will eventually become dinner. But the ...

Nematodes, or tiny worms, that ride along on the genitals of dung beetles help raise the beetle's offspring by boosting the good microbes in the beetle's dung-ball nursery nests.

Here’s a dung beetle, sitting on a ball of poo that it made earlier, wearing a pair of adorable insulating mitts. We’ll get to the mitts later… The dung beetle, Scarabaeus nigroaeneus, as ...

Dung beetle moms protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper Climate change has forced dung beetles to modify their nesting behaviors.

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts gives clues into the health of forests and fields.

Beetle mothers that dug deeper protected their offspring from temperature changes but provided less dung in their brood balls. This meant less nutrition for developing offspring.