Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate ...

Dung beetles are quietly performing a vital climate change mitigation service for Australia's livestock sector, slashing ...

The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavor. these night-soil collectors of the ...

Without a hidden army of recyclers working through the world's dead, rotting, and discarded matter, ecosystems would collapse ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 that ...

Two individuals fighting over a dung ball sounds like a metaphor for a bad love triangle. For dung beetles, though, it’s survival. Dung is a valuable resource, used as food and as a nursery for beetle ...

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 insects' ...

A team of scientists has discovered that dung beetles climb on dung balls and dance around in circles before taking off. This dance is not one of joy, however — the insects are checking out the sky to ...

Even the humble dung beetle, its life spent barely an inch above the ground, pushing balls of waste, steers by starlight. This unsuspected navigational mechanism, described Jan. 24 in Current Biology, ...

As Midgley noted, in a press release that accompanied the Ceratocaryum study, “We still have much to learn about the dynamics of such fecal mimicry.” He is curious, for instance, how the hoax would ...

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