Dung beetles are very specific on what poop they eat ... They will simply not touch the excrement of other animals Two ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball ... children’s book in his lab entitled, “I Eat Poop.” But their ecological role is not always ...

The dor beetle is most active in lower light. You may hear the hum of its wings on late spring evenings as it searches for suitable poop. Most dung beetle species have wings and use them to fly ...

That rolling behavior drew the attention ... “It makes the whole building smell bad,” she said. (Dung beetles relish omnivores’ feces — Mamantov said she often finds beetles in her dogs’ poop, and ...

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 ...