There are plenty of disaster stories when it comes to invasive species. Here’s how the humble dung beetle flipped the script.

A landscape view of Mabu Forest, Zambezia, Mozambique. Gimo Daniel/Author. Mount Mabu in north central Mozambique supports the largest continuous block of rainforest in southern Africa. The Mabu ...

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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.

If the TV series Dirty Jobs covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers. They eat and ...

Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on them, ...

Locating and Working on a Dung Pat Most dung beetles are looking for the manure of herbivores because they excrete a lot of undigested food in their poop. It's basically a pile of undigested grass and ...

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have shown that dung beetles suffer in canopy openings that have been deliberately created to promote biodiversity. Rising temperatures are significantly ...

Analysing DNA inside the guts of dung beetles could provide a useful way to monitor endangered lemur populations in Madagascar. Sergei Tarasov at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki and ...

Dung beetles may not have the most glamorous name or lifestyle, but they are essential for the ecology of agricultural habitats. Their contribution to nutrient recycling and biodiversity is ...

If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These hardworking critters are among the insect world’s most important recyclers. They eat ...