Two individuals fighting over a dung ball sounds like a metaphor for a bad love triangle. For dung beetles, though, it’s survival. Dung is a valuable resource, used as food and as a nursery for beetle ...

A randomized laboratory experiment in two Australian tunnelling dung beetles found that jointly changing density and sex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate change.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are ...

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 ...

Scientists from the University of Bristol have found that dung beetles can help farmers by reducing the development and survival of parasites in cowpats that cause serious illness in cattle during the ...

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields. Now to a search for dung beetles ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...

As Midgley noted, in a press release that accompanied the Ceratocaryum study, “We still have much to learn about the dynamics of such fecal mimicry.” He is curious, for instance, how the hoax would ...

"Surprisingly, the timing and diversification of dung beetles is correlated with the ecological dominance of angiosperms," said lead author Dr. Nicole Gunter, invertebrate zoology collections manager ...

When the South African dung beetle rolls its dung ball through the savannah, it must know the way as precisely as possible. Scientists have now discovered that it does not orient itself solely on the ...

Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate change. Indeed, the long tentacles of climate change now extend all the way ...