Poop ball making Dung Beetles actually use the Milky Way for navigation. So why does an animal who runs around hunting for poop need to navigate so accurately? Trace has the answers.
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39 comments
Oh, nice. I now feel slightly inferior to a Dung Beetle.
I'd have gone with "smell you later"
Sorry but Scishow beat you guys to this one.
Guys, this stuff deserves to go viral but you just have to follow these steps EXACTLY. 1.DON'T ask people to subscribe, remember that you are the boss here. 2. DO only post 1 or 2 videos per week, each about 10 minutes long. 3. DO speak faster so that you keep the audience entertained. I normally don't correct other peoples work but I don't understand why this isn't viral yet.this should be the funny version of vsauce.
well, $h!t.
My cat can make food from her food bowl dissapear
To be honest, I like it this way, it gives me something to look out for.
A bee can make honey.
so you could if you wanted remote control a flock of dung beetles rolling poop across the planetariumfloor by rotating the starmap… and if the poop is fresh enough, you could write your name oO
Right?! I need to learn this skill, stat.
i have two questions if you took a dolphin DNA and turned on the dormant gene that specifically made a dolphin grow legs would the resulting dolphin born actually have legs? could you do this with all its dormant genes?
Honestly, Laci Green is the original reason I subscribed to this channel because she is an excellent vlogger, but I have fallen in (platonic) love (if that is even possible) with all of you. Your guys' mini show has helped me learn a ton of things I wouldn't know otherwise and has made me look into more scientific-y things. Keep it up, D News!
balanced on a ball, check, then fell off and broke my wrist…damn dung beetles.
I like Trace….keep it up DNews..you guys rock!
I'm a fan of dung beetles. Maybe they will be the first species to navigate out of our solar system, they're light, strong and durable, and maybe all that poop is for fuel.
I always thought it was cool how birds could navigate via the Earth's magnetic field.
i named my dung beetle Betty Poop.. poop poop de doop. la la 8-)
D news. Dnews
I hate it when people ask "see what I did there?", just let it lie.
That is fucking cool
I loved all you puns! ^_^ and yes we are the bestest for wing able to care about these things. :)
thanks man i was eating
I'm loving the grazing buffalo in the back ground.
Thats a sweet shirt where did you get that!?
When i read the title, I thought they meant candy bar milky ways
I'm only alive because I'm balancing on a giant ball.
I balanced on poop once. It was an accident.
i can walk on a ball
gay
Ei like you.
and Ei also want that shirt.
If it eats poop, does it poop poop
Yet another animal light pollution impacts.
Now we know why the Egyptians worshipped beetles, the creatures knew where we come from.
cant navigate via milky way but can balance on balls
Beetles are talented no matter if it's a band of musicians or insects!
You sound like your'e in love.
How can the dung beetle see the Milky Way with its ass stuck up in the air?
I read in Scientific American that the Milky Way is about 13% brighter at one end than at the other end, so the beetles can tell which way to go.
Scarab uses the cats eye milkyway because Bassett was the only survivor of our galaxy,giving Zeus/Ra and Cleopatra/Medusa knowledge of alternate universes and hope to achieve stable sun/moon/earth orbit.Bassett's cat eye opens in a slit oval () opposed to O human eyes leading Scarab to spin inside ostrich eggs to ramp and bounce moon/draco egg off earth in a stuck rotation to stop Floods that covered earth. Man came from land, women came from sea