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 ...

An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago has become the inspiration for cutting-edge advancements in drone, robot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

"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.

The dung beetle life isn’t all bad, but it is difficult. He’s the superhero of the insect world, rolling up to ten times his weight (imagine carting around a full-grown Alaskan moose).

Dung Beetles Navigate Poop-Pile Getaways Using Celestial 'Snapshots' : The Two-Way The tiny waste harvesters use the Milky Way as a guide to roll their dung meals away to safety. Now researchers ...

From coprophagy to predation: a dung beetle that kills millipedes Biology Letters, -1 (-1), -1–1 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0654. Beetles transform Canadian forest from carbon sink into carbon source; ...