Dung beetle dance provides crucial orientation cues: Beetles climb on top of ball, rotate to get their bearings to maintain straight trajectory. The dung beetle dance, performed as the beetle moves ...

The discovery that dung beetles use the light of the Milky Way to navigate in the world has received much praise. Researchers have now taken a new step in understanding the existence of these unique ...

When dung beetles dance, they take photos of the Milky Way and navigate the world, a new study has found. Researchers from the Lund University relied on previous knowledge that dung beetles use the ...

Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

A dung beetle wearing silicon boots to protect its feet from the hot soil, as part of an experiment. Courtesy of Adrian Bailey/baileyphotos.com Edited extract from “The Dance of the Dung Beetles” ...

If you're a dung beetle, you spend a good portion of your life dancing around on top of a ball made of poop — a ball of poop that, with any luck, will eventually become dinner. But the researchers who ...

Despite having tiny brains, dung beetles are surprisingly decent navigators, able to follow straight paths as they roll poo balls they've collected away from a dung source. But it seems the insects' ...

The discovery that dung beetles use the light of the Milky Way to navigate in the world has received much praise. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now taken a new step in understanding ...