Sacred scarab

Amazing fact

A study found that sacred scarabs make bigger balls when the dung piles are bigger.

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An illustration based on the real animal.

A little discovery to share.

A study found that sacred scarabs make bigger balls when the dung piles are bigger.

THE REAL WORLD

The real Sacred scarab

Facts about the real animal.

A dung beetle that is common in Egypt. It rolls balls of dung.

As it rolls the soft dung ball along the ground, dust and sand stick to it and it hardens; the ball can grow as big as the beetle.

Males and females often work together, and the larvae grow up feeding on dung.

A study in Turkey reports that it is active almost exclusively at night.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

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We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.

The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.