Size Does Matter – Meet The World’s Heaviest Dung Beetle Regarding dung beetles, size matters, and the world’s heaviest recorded dung beetle is an impressive specimen. Known as the Onthophagus taurus, ...

Scientists from the University of London and the University of Western Australia conducted a study in 2010 on a species of dung beetle called Onthophagus taurus.

Onthophagus Latreille, 1807 Figure 18 (A-B) Digitonthophagus gazella (Fabricius, 1787). (A) Hypomeron with oblique carina reaching lateral margin next to the anterior angle, forming an anterolateral ...

By far, the most common species is Onthophagus orpheus, a tunneler the size of an apple seed. "It's a really beautiful green iridescent beetle," she says.

Onthophagus mabuensis, a new dung beetle species. Werner Strumpher. Why dung beetles matter There are over 7,000 dung beetle species worldwide. They are among the most dominant invertebrates in ...

Male Onthophagus taurus dung beetles can move objects up to 1,141 times their own body weight. This is roughly the equivalent of a person carrying over 80 tons or six double-decker buses. Given its ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Two new species of Onthophagus from Oaxaca, Mexico, are described and illustrated: Onthophagus istmenus new species, and Onthophagus ...

Description de trois espèces nouvelles d’Onthophagus appartenant au Musée Royal de Leyde by Van Lansberge, J W Publication date 1883 Collection taxonomyarchive; additional_collections Language French ...

Plasticity is often regarded as a derived adaptation to help organisms survive in variable but predictable environments, however, we currently lack a rigorous, mechanistic examination of how ...

Tripartilactam (1) is a natural macrocyclic lactam originally reported to have a unique [18,8,4]-tricyclic framework. However, the validity of this structure has been contested since niizalactam C (2) ...