Scientists identify the Onthophagus taurus dung beetle as Earth's strongest insect, capable of pulling 1,141 times its body weight while playing a crucial ecological role.

Remember to avoid driving over elephant dung to ensure you don’t squash any beetles! Dung beetles have dark, round bodies, ...

Do you know why dung beetles roll balls of poo, or how they find their way? Discover all you need to know about these fascinating insects. What is a dung beetle? Dung beetles get their name from their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Believe it or not, we'd have even worse troubles ahead since we'd face a serious poop problem without one of the world's greatest recyclers, the dung beetle. You see, history has taught us exactly ...

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

Although the Citrus County Parks and Rec Bug Day 3 is weeks away on May 17, the search is on for the one bug that will be ...

The Egyptians made sense of the rising and setting of the sun by attributing it to a scarab beetle, or dung beetle, rolling away the sun, as they had seen the dung beetle roll balls of dung.