She could have picked up any old stone from the thousands in the ruins of Tel Azeka, an ancient town in Israel. Instead ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it ...

After mating, females lay their eggs on the poo. Some lay theirs inside a 'brood ball' made of poo bound together with saliva. Dung beetle larvae have sharp mouthparts. They use these to chomp through ...

It was a common article of funeral equipment. The scarab beetle lays its eggs in a dung ball and so it appeared that new life sprang from this dead matter. Ancient Egyptians also believed that a ...