Remember to avoid driving over elephant dung to ensure you don’t squash any beetles! Dung beetles have dark, round bodies, six legs and long flying wings folded under hard, protective covers.

There are three main types of dung beetle – rollers, tunnellers and dwellers. Rollers shape dung into balls and roll them away from the pile. Tunnellers dive into the dung pile, while dwellers ...

Work on Finnish dung beetles focuses on how habitat fragmentation affects the local and regional community structure of dung beetles. Here, recent changes in the Finnish landscape are treated as a ...

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.

Dung beetles dedicate their entire lives to animal feces. They eat it, bury it, and use it as a home for their eggs. This may sound unappealing to us, but it keeps ecosystems clean and prevents ...

The authors added fictional characters Coral Ling and her classmate Ernest Lee to liven up the story. The series is illustrated by Cheng Puay Koon, with two more titles slated for release in 2025.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 1,869 acres of lifesaving ­­critical habitat for the ...