Left to its own devices, nature is very good at recycling. Nothing is ever wasted. Everything can be used again and can be ...

The dung beetle gets its closeup. The portrait was made using a technique called photo stacking, in which the camera is on a rail, the focus is locked, and after every exposure, the camera is ...

One species, the bull-headed dung beetle (Onthophagus taurus), is the world’s strongest insect, able to pull over 1,000 times its own body weight.

Anyone who has walked through a barn or cattle pasture in the summer knows that flies are a nuisance and even a health hazard ...

One species, the bull-headed dung beetle (Onthophagus taurus), is the world’s strongest insect, able to pull over 1,000 times its own body weight. That strength comes in handy for dung beetles ...

If you're a dung beetle, you spend a good portion of your life dancing around on top of a ball made of poop — a ball of poop that, with any luck, will eventually become dinner. But the ...

DANIEL: So the greater the dung beetle diversity, the healthier the forest. McCullough is also interested in the flipside, how big a forest has to be to ensure a robust dung beetle community.

The dung beetle life isn’t all bad, but it is difficult. He’s the superhero of the insect world, rolling up to ten times his weight (imagine carting around a full-grown Alaskan moose).

Read enough about the dung beetle and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining. It is capable of moving many times its own weight in excrement, which it rolls across ...

The dung beetle is a walnut-sized package of determination, but he is also upside down pushing backwards, so he can't see where he's going.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Dung Beetle Adventure A short (and free) adventure game, where you are tasked with helping a hurt, hungry, but inventive dung beetle on its journey to ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, researchers have discovered a dung beetle that doesn't live up to its name, a sign the insect has undergone speciation. A new study published today (Jan. 20) in Biology ...