THE ENGLISH colonists who brought cattle to Australia in 1788 soon faced a malodorous problem. The dung heaps that gradually and tastefully vanished back home were not going anywhere. Instead ...

Do you know why dung beetles roll balls of poo ... Scarabaeus sacer. These scarab beetles feature in religious and funerary art from statues to jewellery. They are said to represent Khepri, the god of ...

art, literature, science and the environment. They are at the centre of current gene research, play an important role in keeping our planet healthy, and some nocturnal dung beetles have been found to ...

An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago has become the inspiration for cutting-edge advancements in drone, robot ...

The real space pioneer might just be a tiny insect with a ball of poop. The dung beetle’s galactic guidance system is launching a new era in navigation technology, proving that sometimes the ...

A rare dung beetle has been found in Devon which was last recorded in the late 1930s. It was discovered by entomologist Clive Turner in April on land in Bittaford, near to Harford and Ugborough ...

Exotic dung beetles were introduced to Australia to clear away huge quantities of livestock poo. The man who proposed the idea left a legacy greater than dung beetles.

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 ...

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.

They use these to defend their nest and compete for females. The minotaur beetle is a type of scarab beetle, belonging to the earth boring dung beetle group Geotrupidae. They drag animal droppings to ...

With its shiny, black and fiery body and orange-tipped antennae, the American burying beetle is a vibrant beauty of the bug world. The insect's occupation, though, is a little less glamorous. After ...

By Emily LaBarge The sprawling PST festival of more than 70 exhibitions doesn’t quite live up to its theme of art and science colliding. But there is a handful of impressive entries.