Don’t play with poo — unless you’re a dung beetle. Then, by all means! This insect plays with animal excrement (*shudder*), and while it may be gross, it’s actually a crucial part of our ecosystem.

(Read how rhinos use poop piles like ... he says. Though dung beetles of the world have many different behaviors, their most famous maneuver involves rolling fresh excrement into a ball.

But until that’s confirmed, this study shows that nocturnal dung beetles are great navigators — even when they’re rolling balls of poop away from their rivals. A weekly newsletter by David ...

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But here's something you didn't know: newly published research reveals that dung beetles can use spheres of rollable poop-meals as portable ... transports its meal by rolling it into a ball ...

Dung beetles are very specific on what poop they eat ... They will simply not touch the excrement of other animals Two ...

They apparently roll the poop ... "Dung beetles and tumblebugs do us a great service by keeping the trails clean and aiding in decomposition." So, next time you see fecal matter go rolling by ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball ... children’s book in his lab entitled, “I Eat Poop.” But their ecological role is not always ...

Much like bees, dung beetles have a habit of shaking their groove thangs while undertaking that important task of rolling around balls of poop. When they form the ball, they crawl on top of it ...

Essentially, wherever there is mammal poop, there's going to be dung beetles." McCullough has been scavenging for dung beetles twice a month since April. She found that they started to emerge in ...

Inspired by the remarkable strength and efficiency of dung beetles, researchers have developed robots that mimic the beetle’s unique object-rolling mechanics. A new study explains how dung ...