On average, dung beetles can roll a ball of 50 times their own weight. One specific species can pull a dung ball 1,141 times ...

Dung beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. They then flourished as mammals and their droppings increased. These insects are now found on every continent, except Antarctica. 'The ...

Some dung beetles are native to California, but many have been imported to help reduce damage from cattle farming. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge spoke with an entomologist about their role ...

So, imagine if all 8,000 species of dung beetle, plus other doo-dining insects, like flies, vanished worldwide. The land would be knee-deep in...you know. Farmland, forest, and desert would all ...

Beginning in the 1960s, CSIRO has introduced 44 dung beetle species from overseas. Dung beetles have specialized gut microbiome bacteria. This helps them break down the cellulose in the dung and ...

Across the region, insect conservation is under-represented in research, funding and public discourse. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Dung beetles, proportionally stronger than elephants, are able to move a ball of dung 40 times their own weight. In fact, for their size, dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world.

According to our first guest today, the secret to maintaining clean water and sustainable pastures lies right under our feet - dung beetles.

Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing the next generation of antibiotic treatments.  For the past two decades, ...