When you contemplate what foods beetles eat, it is tempting to say “just about everything.” Beetles eat a wide range of ...

and his colleagues have discovered a killer dung beetle that pooh-poohs its ancestral dung ball-rolling ways, opting instead to maim and often decapitate ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie ...

Ancient Egyptians associated dung beetles rolling balls of dung with their ... “to be created”, as ancient Egyptians viewed the scarab as a symbol of the incarnation of god.

But scientific discoveries show there's more to the insects than what they eat. All dung beetles belong to the scarab superfamily (Scarabaeoidea). But not all scarab beetles eat dung. Those that do ...

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.

Here, two male taurus scarab beetles, a type of dung beetle, illustrate the subdued subgroup (left) and the showy subgroup (right). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

One of the figures from Ancient Egypt placed in his study is this Heart Scarab. The scarab, or dung beetle, was a sacred symbol of resurrection and crucial in the imagery relating to the passage ...