From how they use poop as an indispensable resource for survival ... Extreme Strength And Endurance – The Superpowers Of The Onthophagus Taurus Rolling balls of dung, which can be up to fifty times ...

Inspired by the remarkable strength and efficiency of dung beetles, researchers have developed robots that mimic the beetle’s unique object-rolling mechanics. A new study explains how dung ...

Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the celestial sphere. In fact, even the insect’s name in Egyptian derives ...

Watch flightless dung beetles (Circellium bacchus), sneaky copulators and crap connoisseurs, do their thing in South Africa. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

Ancient Egyptians also revered dung beetles because the rolling of the dung balls reminded them of the sun god rolling the sun across the sky, according to the Israel Museum. Because they ...

Even on this small island, new insect species are being discovered today. From our dung beetle surveys and examination of previous survey data, we will likely discover at least five new dung ...

The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the celestial ...