Scientists at Montana State University have examined the unique and extreme environments of nearby Yellowstone National Park ...

As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

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

According to our first guest today, the secret to maintaining clean water and sustainable pastures lies right under our feet - dung beetles. Dr Shaun Forgie is the co-founder of Dung Beetle ...

Unfortunately, these impressive beetles face numerous threats to survival, including habitat loss from deforestation and illegal ... They have also been known to eat dung. Regarding lifespan, some ...

But as crafty and resilient against germs as they are, the beetles are threatened by habitat loss and environmental ... studied and documented how adult dung beetles usually die from exposure ...

They uncovered numerous new species, such as the small dung beetle (Onthophagus luridipennis) and the small leaf beetle (Aoria nigripes). Many Hong Kong insect specimens were put on display in the ...

The little biting buffalo fly, Haematobia irritans exigua, well known on the Far North Coast, are on the wing south and west this year after successive good seasons.

These tiny objects take the shape of a dung beetle, which lays its eggs in a dung ball; the new life that emerges earned the insect sacred status. “Scarabs were used in this period as seals ...

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 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 ...