A new study published today (Jan. 20) in Biology Letters reports a dung beetle that shuns its normal muck-eating habits in favor of feasting solely on live millipedes -- the first non-dung-eating dung ...

Some lay theirs inside a 'brood ball' made of poo bound together with saliva. Dung beetle larvae have sharp mouthparts. They use these to chomp through coarse droppings. The adults also slurp ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it digs a hole and lays its eggs. Along with the dung ball rollers ...

The new technique combines self-attention temporal convolutional networks (SATCN), bidirectional long short-term memory networks (BiLSTM), and dung beetle optimization (DBO) and is therefore ...