Although its always exciting to see the big game in the wild, it’s also about the smaller creatures in the animal kingdom ...

Inspired by the remarkable strength and efficiency of dung beetles, researchers have developed robots that mimic the beetle’s unique object-rolling mechanics. A new study explains how dung ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball ... children’s book in his lab entitled, “I Eat Poop.” But their ecological role is not always ...

The dor beetle is most active in lower light. You may hear the hum of its wings on late spring evenings as it searches for suitable poop. Most dung beetle species have wings and use them to fly ...