Talk about being dung wrong. A video of a Dr. Manoj Mittal from Haryana, India, has been making the social media rounds. This video showed him walking among cows and then poop there is. He picked up ...

A new north African species of poo-eating dung beetle has been imported into Australia to fill seasonal and geographic gaps and help livestock producers improve pasture health and productivity. Dung ...

Dung beetles could be the best pound-for-pound farm workers in the world. On Western Australia's south coast, farmers are taking advantage of their output by breeding their own stocks, with more than ...

Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on them, ...

Dung beetles are known for their rather unappetizing food choice: animal feces. But dung doesn't only provide sustenance for these insects; it also plays an integral part in their mating behaviors.

Every day, with bare hands, Rukmini Baburao Kumbhar, collects around 50kg (eight stone) of fresh cow dung. She is part of a spiritual group that runs a small ashram (a religious retreat) in a village ...

There are a whole lot of unsavory lifestyles in the animal kingdom. The pearlfish has to swim up sea cucumber butts to escape predation. All manner of birds must fly thousands and thousands of miles ...

NEW DELHI - Like consumers around the globe, Indians are flocking to the online marketplace in droves these days. But there's one unusual item flying off the virtual shelves: Online retailers say cow ...

Tim is an Australian Senior Editor based in Germany who has been passionate about video games since he first picked up a PlayStation 1 controller to play Crash Bandicoot as a kid. He started out with ...