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 ...

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

The Antiquities Authority determined the stone to be a Canaanite scarab from the Middle Bronze Age. Canaanites were an ancient people that lived throughout the Levant, with strong ties to Egypt. In ...

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.

Across the region, insect conservation is under-represented in research, funding and public discourse. Read more at ...