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

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.

A dung beetle’s occupation is pretty simple. Rohner keeps a children’s book in his lab entitled, “I Eat Poop.” But their ecological role is not always understood. One thing is very clear ...