University of South Australia. "Beetle that pushes dung with the help of 100 billion stars unlocks the key to better navigation systems in drones and satellites." ScienceDaily.

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 ...

MCCULLOUGH: So this is the beetle room. It takes a special kind of person to sign up to work in a dung beetle lab. (LAUGHTER) DANIEL: One of those special people is undergrad Beatrice Altopp.

Ah, the majestic dung beetle. The pinnacle of evolution. In all seriousness, these little critters are incredibly sophisticated navigators who have, for millennia, used the night sky to guide them ...

From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing By Gloria Dickie, Julia Janicki and Simon Scarr December 6, 20228:32 AM PSTUpdated December 6, 2022 ...

* Dung beetles alone are worth some $380 million per year to the U.S. cattle industry for their work breaking down manure and churning rangeland soil, the study found.

That’s just how it rolls. Reference: Smolka, Baird, Byrne, Jund, Warrant & Dacke. 2012. Dung beetles use their dung ball as a mobile thermal refuge. Current Biology 22, R1-2 Image from Smolka ...

Males will then painstakingly push their balls back their burrows, often toting a female who was hanging out at the dung pile. Dung beetles, like this minotaur beetle, make a beeline for fresh feces.

There are some 6,000 species of dung beetles found on every continent save for Antarctica, where there really isn’t much poo to go around. They come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, from the ...

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 ...

Biology: Sex And Dung Beetles Published Nov 09, 2003 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 9:15 PM EST By Newsweek Staff Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member ...