Nature's tiny navigators, dung beetles, have astounded scientists by using the Milky Way as a celestial compass. These ...

An insect species that evolved 130 million years ago is the inspiration for a new research study to improve navigation systems in drones, robots, and orbiting satellites. An insect species that ...

(A) The cyborg is made of the darkling beetle Z. morio with electrodes implanted into its antennae and elytra and a wireless backpack mounted on its back. (B) Stimulation protocols for locomotion ...

Let’s get it out of the way: Dung beetles eat poop. They need to eat the poop — all animals need nitrogen to build protein, and dung beetles get their nitrogen from the feces of warm-blooded ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. James Foster, Research Fellow, Julius Maximilian ...

That such a small insect might be able to navigate according to the night sky would be a rather improbable claim, but the fact remains that dung beetles are capable of just this very feat. It has been ...

The tiny waste harvesters use the Milky Way as a guide to roll their dung meals away to safety. Now researchers say the beetles take "snapshots"... It's not easy being a dung beetle. Besides the ...