Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say. Dung beetles roll up nutritious balls of excrement up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies ...

Discover how dung beetles navigate using polarized light and the sun's position for orientation, even when the sun is hidden. How do dung beetles know where to take their precious cargo, you ask? A ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Their constant rolling, tunnelling and recycling of waste turns out to be a pretty ingenious method of ...

There's no polite way to say this: dung beetles eat poo. This isn't as odd as it sounds. It stands to reason that some of the rich nutrients in food make their way out the 'other end.' Let's find out ...

They do not like to eat grass that is close to dung pats created by their own species! So, the presence of dung pats can reduce the area of pasture available for eating by as much as 5 or 10 percent.

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. Perhaps nature's greatest ...

With so many nice things to eat in the world, why would any animal look at the menu and order a number two? For Saturday's Weird Animal Question of the Week, we're answering Manuela Castro, who asked ...

A rundown of some of the most unusual and interesting green building materials on the market today. The building industry could use some sustainable alternatives when it comes to raw materials: It ...