Living on and around poop is not the only remarkable thing about dung beetles. They are also incredibly strong – and there have been scientific experiments to prove it. Laboratory tests on a range of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate change.

On an unseasonably warm fall morning in early November, Erin McCullough strides through Hadwen Arboretum — a small patch of woodland in Worcester in central Massachusetts. We walk through swirls of ...

Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields. Now to a search for dung beetles ...

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, they ...

Some dung beetles are native to California, but many have been imported to help reduce damage from cattle farming. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge spoke with an entomologist about their role and ...

That such a small insect might be able to navigate according to the night sky would be a rather improbable claim, but the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A species of South African dung beetle has been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate, making it the only known animal that turns to the galactic spray of stars across the ...

Now to a search for dung beetles in Massachusetts. Science reporter Ari Daniel brings us this story about the vital role these insects play in nature and what they have to say about the health of the ...