She could have picked up any old stone from the thousands in the ruins of Tel Azeka, an ancient town in Israel. Instead ...

and his colleagues have discovered a killer dung beetle that pooh-poohs its ancestral dung ball-rolling ways, opting instead to maim and often decapitate ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie ...

On average, dung beetles can roll a ball of 50 times their own weight. One specific species can pull a dung ball 1,141 times ...

From the dung ball, they learned heaps more. The absence of any trees in his ecosystem marks a significant change in the usual diet of Siberian woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius). In all ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it digs a hole and lays its eggs. Along with the dung ball rollers ...