Researchers at the University of South Australia have taken inspiration from the humble dung beetle, renowned for its navigational prowess, to create a groundbreaking AI sensor for navigating in ...

Dung beetle parents don’t provide care for their offspring, but their nesting behaviors affect the next generation. If a female places a brood ball deeper underground, ...

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 ...

Although certain dung beetles sometimes dine on rotting fruit or fungus, and two species have been spotted preying on ants, no obligate predatory dung beetle had ever been reported. But now, Trond ...

"I have found 12 different dung beetle species [in this little patch of Worcester]," she says proudly. "I think people don't appreciate the biodiversity that's right in their backyard.

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One species, the bull-headed dung beetle (Onthophagus taurus), is the world’s strongest insect, able to pull over 1,000 times its own body weight. That strength comes in handy for dung beetles ...

"I have found 12 different dung beetle species [in this little patch of Worcester]," she says proudly. "I think people don't appreciate the biodiversity that's right in their backyard.