The South African dung beetle Scarabaeus lamarcki has - to put it mildly - an interesting technique to ensure its offspring a good start in life. When the animal, which is only a few centimetres tall, ...

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, ...

We all know what to do when life gives you lemons. (I’ll give you a hint: it involves lemonade.) But sometimes life really rears back and lets us have it, and it seems like that’s what is going on in ...

We all know what to do when life gives you lemons. (I’ll give you a hint: it involves lemonade.) But sometimes life really rears back and lets us have it, and it seems like that’s what is going on in ...