There are three main types of dung beetle – rollers, tunnellers and dwellers. Rollers shape dung into balls and roll them away from the pile. Tunnellers dive into the dung pile, while dwellers, on the ...

Christian Cotroneo is the social media editor at Treehugger. He is a founding editor at HuffPost Canada, and former writer at The Dodo and Toronto Star. Dung beetles don't have the most glamorous name ...

Maggie Mamantov has chosen what some might consider a rather unusual focus for her PhD research: the dung beetle—a tiny creature that acts as a janitor as well as a farmer for many other species on ...