From carpet beetles to ladybugs to palo verde beetles, here's what to know about the most common beetles in Arizona and why ...

Paramount Animation and Ryan Reynolds are developing 'I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story' based on the popular children’s book ...

If the TV series Dirty Jobs covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers.

Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on ...

Ledón-Rettig studies dung beetles, and she breeds one species—the taurus scarab—in her lab at Indiana University. That involves collecting fresh cow dung, wringing out some of the moisture ...

If you're a dung beetle, you spend a good portion of your life dancing around on top of a ball made of poop — a ball of poop that, with any luck, will eventually become dinner. But the ...

And his group and others have shown that honeybees can use color cues. Dung beetles make another good test case. Theyroll a freshly collected ball of their sustenance in a relatively straight line ...

Read enough about the dung beetle and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining. It is capable of moving many times its own weight in excrement, which it rolls across ...

Dung beetle behaviour has fascinated humans for thousands of years – including the ancient Egyptians, who incorrectly believed the beetles reproduced only from males. But Egyptian observations ...

On the contrary: Lead like a dung beetle. Seriously. Why am I inspired by the lowly dung beetle? A dung beetle spends most of life with his ass in the air and his head to the ground. He has one ...

Despite having tiny brains, dung beetles are surprisingly decent navigators, able to follow straight paths as they roll poo balls they've collected away from a dung source. But it seems the ...