On an unseasonably warm fall morning in early November, Erin McCullough strides through Hadwen Arboretum — a small patch of woodland in Worcester in central Massachusetts. We walk through swirls of ...
Kimberly S. Sheldon receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These ...
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A dung beetle is a walnut-sized package of determination. The mound the termites abandoned might not look much of a threat, but to a dung beetle, it’s a mountain whose slopes are covered with pitfall ...
THE ENGLISH colonists who brought cattle to Australia in 1788 soon faced a malodorous problem. The dung heaps that gradually and tastefully vanished back home were not going anywhere. Instead, they ...
Analysing DNA inside the guts of dung beetles could provide a useful way to monitor endangered lemur populations in Madagascar. Sergei Tarasov at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki and ...
Dung beetles use the Milky Way at night to navigate. Engineers have used the same technique to develop an AI sensor for navigation in low light. An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago is ...
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