A new north African species of poo-eating dung beetle has been imported into Australia to fill seasonal and geographic gaps and help livestock producers improve pasture health and productivity. Dung ...

Dung beetles prefer the smelliest poop they can find, new research on the insects suggests. Odorous dung from omnivores, which eat a diet of both plants and animals, seems to be the most attractive to ...

A road sign in Bursa, Turkey, warns drivers of the presence of dung beetles, stating 'Attention! It may come out, don't crush it please!' Ugur Ulu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images If the TV series ...

Dung beetles are a functionally important component of most terrestrial ecosystems, but communities change with habitat disturbance and deforestation. In this study, we tested if dung beetle ensembles ...

Field trips in search of dung beetles have taken Christian Deschodt, a doctoral student at the University of Pretoria, across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. But it was on his regular walk on a ...

Locating and Working on a Dung Pat Most dung beetles are looking for the manure of herbivores because they excrete a lot of undigested food in their poop. It’s basically a pile of undigested grass and ...

A species of dung beetle has ditched its excrement-eating ways in favor of millipedes. And the beetle shows no mercy, often decapitating the leggy insect before devouring it, a new study finds. In the ...

Researchers studying scarab beetle DNA have revealed that dung eaters were around in the Lower Cretaceous 115 million years ago, or 30 million years earlier than we thought. Dung beetles may have ...

Dung beetles could be heading towards oblivion as pesticides and veterinary medicines poison their daily diet of faeces. The declining numbers of the insect could have wide-reaching catastrophic ...

In a fossilized chunk of ancient reptilian poo, scientists have uncovered complete specimens of a new beetle species. The finding, described June 30 in Current Biology, suggests that fossilized dung ...

Yes, that’s a serious scientific question, especially now that animals are moving into unfamiliar territories and bringing their poop along with them. After two years and over 9,000 dung beetles, I ...

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. They eat and ...