A luxury restaurant in Shanghai has stirred controversy for serving a dessert made with processed elephant dung as part of a rainforest-themed dining.

Dung beetles get their name from their diet of animal poo. Wherever there are herbivorous mammals leaving droppings, there are beetles making the most of it. But scientific discoveries show there's ...

A new study published today (Jan. 20) in Biology Letters reports a dung beetle that shuns its normal muck-eating habits in favor of feasting solely on live millipedes -- the first non-dung-eating dung ...