Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

dung beetle populations are also highly sensitive to deforestation and habitat fragmentation, since less available habitats would reduce the number of vertebrates. Our research has shown that a ...

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 practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated in Egypt. Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their Sun god rolling the “Sun disk” across the ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

dung beetles, red spitting cobra, Ethiopian viper, and critically endangered pancake tortoises. There is also an immersive new habitat where visitors can climb into a Land Rover surrounded by ...

dung beetles, red spitting cobra, Ethiopian viper, critically endangered pancake tortoises and an immersive new habitat where visitors can climb into a Land Rover surrounded by 15,000 locusts.

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds ... Much of this specialized habitat—less than 3 percent of the total land area ...

Meet the world’s heaviest recorded dung beetle, a fascinating creature that has earned a place in the record books and captured the imaginations of insect enthusiasts worldwide. Let’s look at this ...