Remember to avoid driving over elephant dung to ensure you don’t squash any beetles! Dung beetles have dark, round bodies, ...

Do you know why dung beetles roll balls of poo, or how they find their way? Discover all you need to know about these fascinating insects. What is a dung beetle? Dung beetles get their name from their ...

The Egyptians made sense of the rising and setting of the sun by attributing it to a scarab beetle, or dung beetle, rolling away the sun, as they had seen the dung beetle roll balls of dung.

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 ...