| 单词 | dung |
| 例句 | The next day, a large mound a dozen feet away from him that at first looked like cow dung started moving. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Only in one area have scientists discovered younger dung balls: on several Caribbean islands, in particular Cuba and Hispaniola, they found petrified ground-sloth scat dating to about 5000 BC. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the little calcified seashell in my palm, then at the huge mountain of dung. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “A bit treacherous! A bit treacherous! My brother Phlegm was ambushed by a crowd of dwarfs disguised as dung heaps! He’s still in traction!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Next time you be much warmer nestled in the dung heap these cold days,” she told him. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says to tell you that you have been consigned to the dung heap of history while people like him ride in their limos down the superhighways of life. Something like that.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Course, with his mum and dad gone you’d have felt sorry for him, only he kept chucking goat dung at my head. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "Rrrootle it out, this small lump of dung!" screeched The Grand High Witch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I noticed fresh, green splats of buffalo dung, and waterbuck hoof- prints. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "About digging a hole to bury my dung in?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z At the makeshift camp, the guerrillas set up their tents and open cans of pinto beans and pressed meat the color of dung. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t had to clean boots, but weapons, yes—and he’d had to shovel camel dung. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Smart enough to use the heat from the dung heap, I see. What can you do?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as well to go out early, otherwise you could never tell how much had already been taken by urchins, for dung was easy to sell and commanded a good price. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking pattles of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Come down and we will take you home and lay you softly into the dung heap, deep, deep, deep into the dung heap.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The bald knight nodded slowly, still eyeing the dung heap. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Cows grazed, stinking of sweet dung and addled by summer blackflies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was immediately caught in a cloud of raw odor, a kind of steamy dung odor that came up from the greasy coil of insides that fell from the bird, and he nearly threw up. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It simply bubbled around each spring and sank into the ground, taking the dung with it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I see you collect dung and take it with you. Is it not for the land?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked for ruts and cracks but found only a pile of warm dung deposited by one of the horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A low hill rises before me, and when I reach the top, the night breeze curdles, bringing with it the unmistakable smells of war—blood and dung and rot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “When the father went to Pete’s—the Optimist’s—room, he couldn’t see Pete, but he could hear the sound of frantic shoveling and heavy breathing. Horse dung was flying all over the room.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Piles of horse dung steamed in the streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I let go of the twin, picked up a handful of dung, filth, God-knows-what and let fly. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z They made such an entrancing sight that Tyrion almost waddled right into the steaming pile of dung the elephant had left to mark its passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To Alyce it sounded all the more frightening and strange, as if a goose had spoken, or an egg, or the dung heap in the yard. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed at his men, churning the village dung heap with their arms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Neither mythical nor horse dung, I'm afraid,” the Augur says soberly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Neel’s sister got up early to pump and haul water, feed the animals, make patties out of cow dung for fuel, wash clothes, tend the garden, cook, and clean. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z This one had a more confident flow and they crossed it by a stone bridge thick with cow dung. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The air was hot and humid, pungent with the odors of sweaty wool, sawdust, and animal dung. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They crossed a platform covered with powdery dry elephant dung, their feet kicking up puffs of dust as they advanced. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He brings food for the table, and dung for the thatch. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Already sunlight was slanting across the yard, and in the stillness the flies buzzed about a patch of dung a few feet away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We gathered up the dung from the night before and hauled it outside. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The Council Chief stood up to open the meeting, slipped on a pile of Porlock dung and ran cursing from the hall. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She appealed to her neighbors: “She’s always just taking that dung and piling it up on top of her, isn’t she?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And in the half-light of evening the dung carts had come out, attended by half-naked slaves whose task it was to shovel up the steaming piles left by elephants both great and small. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her head rested on his shoulder, the pleasant smell of her hair conquering the pigeon dung. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “That got you, didn’t it? Wait’ll I tell your girlfriend how cute you are now. You smell like a pile of dung.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She scooped a hole in the dung heap and laid the cat in it. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The air in the little square chamber above the bells was hot and stagnant, and smelt overpoweringly of pigeon dung. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Trapped, they spent the night in old mule dung until Tag found them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The scent of garbanzo beans in spicy sauce hung in the air, mixed with the smell of dung and sweat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I slapped the cow dung into nicely shaped cakes and plastered them to the walls, a neat handprint on each one. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “The dung heap is where our little Jeanne is always hiding. Isn’t that so?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The sitting room has a hearth and a modest stack of something that looks to be dried dung. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Having cleared the stable of astronomy of circles and spirals, he was left, he said, with “only a single cartful of dung,” a stretched-out circle something like an oval. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tired of it all: the yellow fog, the horse dung in the streets, the noise. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Kochu Thomban had finished his ceremonial rounds, and lay tethered to a wooden stake next to a steaming mound of his own dung. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There is hardly room to step without landing on someone’s foot, a squawking chicken, or a pile of cow dung. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z "We don't do this every day. Some days we clean out the jakes and pile it on the dung heap." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The man scowled as he studied Ucho, as if the boy were smeared in fresh llama dung that was unpleasant to the nose. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z There’s fish in it, andflowers, and some elephant dung as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With the mask over my face, I could not smell bats or dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, let me get on with my scraper and dung. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Sing me that song again, about the dung and the dark,” he begged. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It was a very hot night—Selvam and Ira were sleeping out in the open, in the small square in front of our hut which I had swept and washed with dung that morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo swept the floor with a bundle of grass and rubbed the dung in with her hands. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They run back and forth, filling troughs, tossing hay, and hauling away dung. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There were giant patties of dung on the ground, with huge maggots writhing and burrowing in them, but Thor avoided all of them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The smell drifted up the slope with the breeze; heaps and pools of green-black-brown-white dung lay among the broken beams, the scattered thatch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The hall stank of soot, dung, and wet dog. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The dung cakes I made fell apart, so the fire went out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Through the open windows came the faint leathery scent of cow dung, always present except on the coldest days, and noticeable only to those who had been away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Beetle soon acquired a new name, the midwife’s apprentice, and a place to sleep that smelled much better than the dung heap, though it was much less warm. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blocking up the streets and leaving heaps of dung for the likes of us to contend with,” said Gerris. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Aristotle declared that most insects did not come from other insects, but from dew, dung, dead animals, or mud. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yer a mess!” said Hagrid gruffly, brushing soot off Harry so forcefully he nearly knocked him into a barrel of dragon dung outside an apothecary. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “No, you overgrown pile of dung!” she yelled. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his hands. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Nor were there smells, no dung, no manure. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z All day the cat lay still in his cave in the dung heap. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dung beetle, dung beetle, you must be afeared, so far from your dung,” they chanted. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, she also called him to her with words which she presumably thought were friendly, like "Come here for a bit, old dung beede!" or "Hey, look at the old dung beede!" The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Try ziberry next time. It doesn’t smell like goat dung, at least.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You idiot! You ball of hyena dung! How could you leave that knife behind!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The Lord of easterly Rock made such an impressive figure that it was a shock when his destrier dropped a load of dung right at the base of the throne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “She must make tons of dung,” Seth said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I passed through the town on my way to the market and somebody threw it — a clod of dung. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “I played like a sack of dragon dung,” said Ron in a hollow voice when the door had swung shut behind Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Some of the white wax that dung to the sides of the bronze cups came from candles that had been lit in Russia. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z A fire would be lit and dried cow dung put in to burn. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight she settled for the warm rotting of a dung heap, where she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The dung made him think of his lord father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Next, she collected fresh cow dung for her grandmother’s floor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Man attempting to climb to painless heights from his dung hill. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z His head was a tumult of smells—phlox in bloom, ashes, cow dung, dog, cat, hens, stagnant water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I crossed a muddy area covered with animal tracks and continued along a broad platform covered with spongy dried dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last upon a mass of dung before the gates—manure of mules and cows, piled there until fieldhands could spread it on the king’s estate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He that said “I bleed,” he reached up to the sun and pulled out handfuls of excrement from the bowels of the sun, and with that dung made the hills and valleys of the earth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They went through a gate and across a concrete yard, and the air smelled thick, with cow dung and silage and straw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The smell in Iofur’s palace was repulsive: rancid seal fat, dung, blood, refuse of every sort. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Eh! You have crawled out of your pile of dung! You have come to witness the superior power of Jesus!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “A voice came from deep inside the dung. ‘ The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The stink of horse dung was heavy in the air, mingled with the woodsmoke and the smell of cooking meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The grass was kept short by Cape buffalo grazing it, and was spotted with their dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He pushed his fingers into his hair, made a furious face, and flung away another handful of dung. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A faint, foul smell of horse dung drifted from the boy. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Or, So you voted no, you have the brains of a dung fly, and what’s more, you have no manners. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There ain’t much light to see by, but the rich side of town glitters like a jewel in dung. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He says the word gentleman as if it is a pile of sheep dung in the kitchen, and this makes me smile. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I ran around the length of the stable, throwing shells into the dung piles. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I heard the rain on the roof and smelled the hay and, when I went down, the clean smell of dried dung in the stable. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Get up, then, girl. You do put me in mind of a dung beetle burrowing in that heap. Get up, Beetle, and I may yet find something for you to do.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Powerful smells of straw and cow dung mingled with those of elm leaves, ashes and cattle feed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Stones and dung and fouler things whistled overhead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had been throwing their biscuits all over the place, and they had been finger-painting the walls with dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But her heart ached when she thought of the tiny hairless bodies in those strong jaws, so she buried them deep in the dung heap and left the cat to do his own hunting. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost at once Jack found the dung and scattered roots that told of pig and soon the track was fresh. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It landed on a pat of fresh cow dung. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Elephant dung around the cave is full of crumbled rock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The old dung heap ruse. Disgraceful. One of the reasons I don’t associate with the Brotherhood.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He searched floors, roads, and fields for grains of rice, beans, or cow dung that contained undigested kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Don’t give up, boy. Maybe your father is running late. Most omens are not as dramatic as a chicken, of course. I knew a fellow once who got a dung beetle—” “Thanks, Vitellius,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But in America, the dung ball cannot be dodged. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind, as he stopped to sniff it, was reassuring, carrying only the scents of evening dew, may and cow dung. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Each beast was larger than a house; the tips of their horns were capped with gold, and the courtyard stank with the sharp smell of their dung. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The trail itself seemed to consist of a bed of dried animal dung. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeanne’s mother whispered so loudly everyone could hear it: “She likes to hide in the dung heap!’ The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “You must find your own. You could look in the field of the oxen for it. Nice big maggots in the ox dung, after all. Bring whatever you want from there.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Now, if you saw this man, with his coveralls and his cow dung, you’d figure he was not a worthy customer. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One of them threw a dried lump of dung at his back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I am nothing but dung now,” he described himself to his captors, and died a few weeks later. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When it was gone, hot not before, the Wart knew certain dungs about it—dungs which he had not had time to notice while the boar was there. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She knows I once dumped a bucket of cow dung on Marcus’s bed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There was a sharp crack, and dung sprayed from the RECO’s head. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At Holi a special red powder mixed with cow’s dung and urine is thrown at everyone. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not even a dung beetle would want to push that old ball of caca around, much less hold on to it. Mamá should have sold it a long time ago.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The one with the face like an anvil shrugged his shoulders and, without even rolling up his sleeves, shoved his arms into the dung with a squelch. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z My mother has lived her whole life in a hut made of sticks and cow dung, and you could put everything she owns on the seat of a chair. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigwig found some horse dung along the track, dug the worms out of it, overcame his disgust and carried them one by one. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t mind the work — digging the pits grinding the oak bark smearing the hides with dung. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t care if it is dung. She made it. You eat it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Their smells were strong, musk and hay and dung, but it was as if someone had just carted the animals off, leaving the mess for someone else. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Each week the autumn grew colder and wetter, and the inn, although dirty and drafty, was much cozier than any barn or dung heap to be found outside, so she remained, empty of heart. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don’t believe a word of it, since it’s mythical horse dung. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Two men in ballooning skirts and balding velvet blouses, vaulting over littered moons and mounds of dung, circling around the hulk of a sleeping elephant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered dried leaves to light the dung in the stove so the water for tea would be boiling when the family awoke. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In my mind, in this moment I see a dung beetle, working with all its small might. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Rahel was first blacklisted in Nazareth Convent at the age of eleven, when she was caught outside her Housemistress’s garden gate decorating a knob of fresh cow dung with small flowers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was out gathering cow dung, I did not see Sivaji come, and he left quickly as soon as he had delivered his message. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A me-ball is made by rolling up dung until it’s the size of a small apple, then letting it dry. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z It was a dung heap, a bunch of logs covered in mud, sand, and moss. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Villagers turned from the spectacle of the dung heap to see little Jeanne, carried like a willful calf in the arms of the weasel-faced knight. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Swarms of flies followed the carts, so the dung slaves had flies tattooed upon their cheeks, to mark them for what they were. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The air coming through the screen is musty and hot—it smells of overripe dates and dung. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She dung tightly with both hands, desperately fighting being thrown into the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Dung beetle! Dung beetle! Smelly old dung beetle sleeping in the dung.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He seldom sat down, but strayed about with nervous movements, picking dungs up and setting them down without looking at them, walking to windows and looking out but seeing nothing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Meant to evoke both admiration and empathy, the content ranges from animal achievements — male dung beetles haul 1,100 times their body weight! — to research and observations on the emotional lives of animals. How Humans Can Coexist With Other Animals 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The most benign of these pictures carries this caption: “Children in the camps scavenged constantly for food, eating rats, insects and undigested kernels of corn they found in cow dung.” Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z Women should have higher aspirations than clawing their way to the top of the capitalist dung heap. Elizabeth Banks Was a Frustrated Actress. Now She’s a Determined Mogul. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z "As a consequence, in the elephant dung, you get the most amazing variety of these botanicals," Les Ansley told The Associated Press. South African gin includes elephant droppings 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z We luxuriate in the incessant trivialities of pop culture as we might a mud bath, not even minding when the mud is mostly dung. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z Gallons of blood, big steaming piles of dung. TV review: World Without End; Blandings 2013-01-12T22:55:01Z When the eggs hatch, the babies feed off the dung and become beetles. Meet the artist who invented the Grateful Dead’s skull and roses logo 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Polyphemus, the Cyclops, crouches atop one set of revolving doors, and the Stymphalian birds, known for their toxic dung, hover over another. Spare Times for Children for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z A vocal coalition of critics, from Occupy Wall Street to Pope Francis, castigate global trade as being exploitative and people’s fixation on money as the “dung of the devil”. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The repellant appearance of the dun-coloured dung on show in the museum belies its true significance as one of the crowning glories of 20th century science. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z “Escape” is the beetle breaking out of a planet, which was the dung ball he was pushing around. Meet the artist who invented the Grateful Dead’s skull and roses logo 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z And how about the smell of dung that's sadly lacking at the Globe? Candle-lit theatres belong in the past 2013-04-23T14:20:39Z “He told his daughter that when he returned, the two of them would cover the entire garden with a heavy coating of dung.” In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z “But don’t worry, they don’t use any horse dung here.” Delving into the hutongs of Beijing, chopsticks at the ready 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Some eat the dung of herbivores, others that of omnivores. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The analogy he used was separating dung from diamonds, and the words he kept—the diamonds–were the ones he thought to be authentic teachings of Jesus. Thomas Jefferson vs. the Bible: What America’s founding father really thought about religion 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Two young monks dressed in robes and orange headpieces stepped onto the roof and blew into their dung dkar, or conch shell horns. Cups of Tea, Pashminas and Momos, Seeing India’s Himalayas on a Budget 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z If a female is impressed with a male’s sculpting talent and physique, she will follow him as he rolls the dung ball, sometimes riding on top as if it were a chariot. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z And then there are the eccentric materials, brightly colored map pins, glitter and — most famous — elephant dung. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In one scene, she recalled, Wayne drags her across a field that he and Ford had covered with sheep dung. Maureen O'Hara, Star of Many Film Classics, Dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z At times, the sand rolls on and on like an endlessly unfurling, magically variegated carpet that shifts from blood red to burnt sienna, pale pink and dung brown. Mia Wasikowska Plays Robyn Davidson in ‘Tracks’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Beehive-shaped clay pottery kilns, fired with wood or cow dung, sit behind the homes, with piles of firewood stacked alongside. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z A man has reportedly retaliated against a neighbor with cow dung in a small Michigan town. Michigan man builds 'poop wall’ after dispute with neighbor: Report 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z As a period piece, it is astonishing, reeking of animal dung and illness, ankle-deep in sucking mud and spilled blood. Deadwood is the best drama HBO has ever made – it must be revived 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Thomas recognised the distinctively industrialised nature of the first world war: it was a vast machine designed, as he put it, "to turn young men to dung". Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z Sky Arts, meanwhile, has just completed its search for the Nation's Best Am Dram in a reality show that promised, in its first episode, to pluck "diamonds from the am-dram dung heap". Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z You’ll find dung beetles on most lists of the top helpful creatures in the garden, along with bees, earthworms, predatory wasps and mosquito-eating bats. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z On the smells and tastes and sounds of a country saturated in gluttony, he is marvellous: thyme, milk, sweat and dung are all vividly present on the page. The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood – review 2013-07-20T10:01:08Z For fuel to keep the fire going, the ever-smiling Yama collects yak dung, spreads it and dries it. 'Summer Pasture': a true look at slow-to-change nomadic lifestyle 2011-12-29T21:12:04Z Workers die this way often enough that a pair of physicians, writing in a medical journal, coined a name for it: dung lung. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z The old country here tends to be a place of tubercular cows, stagnant ponds, hateful romantic options, dung in a sweater’s weave. Review: ‘The Love Object’ by Edna O’Brien 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z She remains infuriated that the art world defended the Brooklyn Museum’s 1999 “Sensation” show, which included a depiction of a Madonna figure that incorporated elephant dung, after Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani denounced it. Camille Paglia Scowls at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-09-27T22:19:53Z Every morning, as the sun climbs in the sky, they rise to a day of chores: tending the family hearths, lighting dung cakes. The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z At least half of them volunteer for tasks ranging from shoveling dung from barns to helping with feedings. Heads Up: Bed and Breakfast, Goats and Pigs 2012-06-08T18:13:28Z But in the meantime they’re tinkering with gins and experimenting with sheep dung. In Iceland, Welcome to the Craft Liquor Revolution 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Babylon Rated R for drugs, drinking, nudity and lots of elephant dung. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z I am always telling him to talk properly, but when I get mad, I talk in patois: "Shuttup and come dung ere, man!" The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z There are gold mines and roving banditti; mules are branded, and dung is hauled to smoke out grasshoppers. Los Angeles Through the Centuries, Glimpsed by Kerouac, de Beauvoir, Waugh and Others 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z After three hours of hiking through dense forest, I almost slipped in a pile of gorilla dung. Seeing mountain gorillas up close in eastern Congo 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z When the dung hits the fan, Barry tries to get his family back to the United States. Stereotypes, preconceptions topple a lavish 'Tyrant' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z One way to lure children to the museum: mention the wooden drawers containing the dung of various animals. Travel Guide: Paris for Kids 2013-07-30T18:17:49Z She guessed she had eight Tupperwares worth of dung collected at the time; she was observing them for fungal growth. A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z What happens to the earthworms, the dung beetles, the ground spiders? Soil: Can you dig it? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “Horse dung, of course!” she says with glee. Delving into the hutongs of Beijing, chopsticks at the ready 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z I look at a mountain of cow dung and go, "I'm sorry, but I can't see the artistic integrity in that." Lynda LaPlante, screenwriter and novelist – portrait of the artist 2013-05-28T16:24:46Z The mixed-media portrait depicts a black Virgin Mary whose open clothing reveals a breast of dried elephant dung. Virgin Mary portrait using elephant dung sells for $4.5 million 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z There's dung and dying animals, and you can practically feel the chill wind off the hills. Rewind TV: The Village; Jonathan Creek; Game of Thrones – review 2013-04-06T21:45:01Z Here was something new and unusual for American audiences, invariably described as a “dung beetle” game or a “snowball simulator.” He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Here, he places his subjects even more deeply in the tropics, a locale already predicted in the red-black-green Marcus Garvey works, while also discarding the dots, glitter, map pins and dung. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Woe to the female dung flies drowned or irreparably injured by overeager suitors. "Sex on Six Legs:" Life and love among the insects 2011-08-10T22:23:04Z She enters — and wins — multiple contests for skills utterly new to her, including a shell game and dung throwing. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The aroma of cow dung was a little too overpowering for me. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z The blunt smell of dung and oil lamps. In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z It looks like a snaking pile of dung. Learning to cook South Indian food, with the help of some experts At its center is the legacy of the German occupation, which Modiano, who was born in 1945, refers to in his memoir "Pedigree" as "the soil — or the dung — from which I emerged." Patrick Modiano's many detours into echoes, longings and tension 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The aroma was equally thrilling—a heady mix of sawdust, cotton candy, and animal dung. The Last Show: A Farewell to the Circus 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z She rose to her feet and brushed the dung from her trousers. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z An efficient digestive system means their dung is small and compact, even touted as the cleanest on earth. ‘Llama therapy’ in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z One of her daily tasks is to collect the yak dung each morning, and spread it out to dry. | 'Summer Pasture': A Life Herding Yaks, Modernity on the Horizon 2011-08-14T23:21:49Z The first couple of miles of the hike were remarkable, too, for the pungent, pervasive odor of cattle dung. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z What may be amazing to those who know him only in the context of dung beetles was that Nichols was also a successful author of children’s books and detective stories. | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z “Oh yes, so beautiful!” retorted one of the men with a sarcasm so sharp it broke the language barrier as children rode rusted bicycles in figure-eights around dwellings built from clay and yak dung. 12 Days on the Most Storied Highway of Them All: The Silk Road 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z I did the “Captured” album in 1981, and it is a scarab that carries its eggs in a dung bowl. Meet the artist who invented the Grateful Dead’s skull and roses logo 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z For engineers trying to decrease humankind’s dependence on fossil fuels, dung has proven a surprisingly useful fuel source. Don’t take “The Assignment”: Michelle Rodriguez plays a transgender assassin in the year’s worst movie so far 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z She’d gathered the dung in a park in the Bronx, she said, and was currently storing it in Tupperware that once housed takeout. A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Perényi’s honesty, intolerance, and appreciation of all that makes gardening a joy—night, vegetables, dung, experimentation—make me forgive her everything. Even acres. A Gardening Book for Those Who Hate Gardening Books 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Their works come straight from the front lines, with a material urgency — dung, brooms, urns, crude sandals from construction sites — that is clearer than any political manifesto. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z When the priests refused, they offered gold for the relics, but the offer “was tossed aside like dung.” Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z We laughed at the Elephant Nature Park when Carol found and snapped a perfect example of a self-sustaining system: pumpkin seeds sprouting out of elephant dung. Three yogis take on Thailand 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Bear Grylls, the host, is an Eton-educated adventurer who shoots rapids, ice-climbs and parachutes, preferably landing in locations requiring him to eat grubs and drink urine and, at least once, liquid from elephant dung. Salt and Sweat, Blood and Guts, but No Girls! 2011-07-22T21:30:32Z For some, such as dung beetles, it’s instinctive. Ever wondered about why some kids are picky eaters? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Classification issues aren’t likely to change with his new sculptures, which can look like a stack of soft internal organs, a gorgeous extracted tumor or a glittering lump of dung. The Blobs Aren?t Talking 2010-03-03T23:54:00Z That afternoon, I walked past heaps of elephant dung on my way to Victoria Falls National Park. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Industrious dung beetles were scooting their prizes up a hill, only to tumble back down and patiently begin again. Texas’ best-kept secret? A 120-mile-long canyon that’s grand in its own right. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z His agricultural ethic includes grazing his farm with sheep, which rescues garter snakes from mowers, which helps control rodents, while sheep dung acts as fertilizer. Little San Juan County takes on the GMO goliaths 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In place of menace, “Return” offers dung: the film’s most consistent motif is the danger of stepping in, sitting on or being splattered by it. | 'Nanny McPhee Returns': Emma Thompson Tames the Wild Child in Wartime 2010-08-19T23:34:00Z Some eat only dung, and some eat and break down other materials as well. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z It also helps to have dung beetles around, even if you don’t spread any manure. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Too funny, but I recall reading about art made from dung, so think someone already "created" that outcome. What’s for Lunch? Soup, With a Side of Art 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s just that there are so many flies buzzing around the same piles of elephant dung, on multiple platforms, all across the overpopulated late-night comedy landscape. We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z It takes a lot of nerve to wear a dress that is the color of dung, that is also transparent and that is worn atop a knitted bra. Perspective | The Golden Globes red carpet showed it’s okay to delight in fashion rather than just tolerating it 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z “There are few things as wonderful as a child’s face the first time they watch a dung beetle at work or put their small hands in the tracks where a lion recently passed,” he said. In Kenya, a Safari Program for Kids 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Forget the lily ponds; Čapek is the Thurber of compost. Wit and cow dung: What more could you possibly want? A Gardening Book for Those Who Hate Gardening Books 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Sigrid Jakob showed up to Green-Wood Cemetery hot on the heels of a recent victory: The deer dung she was cultivating in her apartment had just yielded a particularly exciting specimen of fungi. A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Postcards, newspaper headlines, rose petals and elephant dung are among the materials used in artworks that have been chosen for a new exhibition tracing the use of collage in art. In pictures 2011-08-08T07:18:30Z Ofili’s work, executed in acrylic, oil, resin, glitter, collage and, for good measure, elephant dung, is an attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor with its figural, faux naïve vine branch painted in shades of pink. 2010-02-11T17:00:00Z Brother Joseph basically has three remedies – blood-letting, a dung poultice fresh from the privy, and amputation by meat cleaver – which he prescribes for everything, often in combination. TV review: World Without End; Blandings 2013-01-12T22:55:01Z If she is to bring God to the center ring of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the least she can do is keep it free of horse dung. She’s traveled 16 years with the circus, but she is not a performer. She’s a nun. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In each of these exultant paintings, a richly decorated dung ball forms the center of an immense star that seems to bless the scene like the star of Bethlehem. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z As one of the exhibition’s wall panel explains, reassuringly, “Vanillin made in this way cannot be labeled natural, because cow dung is not considered edible.” Museum of Food and Drink Takes a Look at Flavor 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z About a decade ago, scientists discovered that the lignin in cow dung could yield vanillin, a breakthrough that food manufacturers have not exactly trumpeted. Museum of Food and Drink Takes a Look at Flavor 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z And dung beetles are happy to process dung. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z After all, even the Egyptians' holy scarab was only a dung beetle. iPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But did Jefferson actually call the Good Book a dung hill, like some say? Thomas Jefferson vs. the Bible: What America’s founding father really thought about religion 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z They may flash intoxicating beams of light at the eye, but it’s best to think of them as the dung on which everything else in this endlessly absorbing exhibition grows. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The zoo has been selling elephant dung to gardeners as fertilizer for years. Whose poo is this? Prague Zoo takes a closer look at dung 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z He's merely relentless, working on your nerves in a purely clinical way, without the levitating touch of the dung poet you find, for example, in a Roland Emmerich film such as "2012." Transformers: A 'Moon' to howl at 2011-06-28T05:19:00Z Their bodies convert food to protein far more efficiently, and they produce virtually no dung or greenhouse gases. Catch a Buzz With Two New Books About Bugs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z What could have happened to her in Australia that makes standing in a field, the wind whipping sheep dung in her face, preferable? All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-30T09:00:01Z In ancient Egyptian writing and art, the image of a scarab, or dung beetle, expressed a whole concept of the afterlife and rebirth and was used in inscriptions as the verb “to become.” Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z At The Harvard Lampoon, where he became editor, he organized elaborate pranks that required great mounds of elephant dung and the destruction of cars. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z In 1999 the museum created a maelstrom by exhibiting a painting that depicted the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung, prompting the mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to threaten to cut city financing. Arts & Leisure Preview: Pondering Brooklyn Museum?s Mission and Future 2010-08-05T15:17:00Z The most heroic are the male ball-rolling beetles that carve perfect spheres out of dung, at least twice their size and weight, roll them some distance away and bury them in pre-excavated nests. The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z One scene shows how early humans might have eaten mushrooms, including psychedelic ones, off animal dung as they tracked prey across the savanna, then collectively tripped their way toward language, weaponry, music and more. Mushrooms Aren’t Here to Destroy Us — Or to Save Us 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z While lecturing before scientists skeptical about the rigor of his work, he launched into a bizarre metaphor about elephant dung. ‘The Empathy Diaries’ Is a Beautiful Memoir About the Life of the Mind and the Life of the Senses 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z At one juncture, a Swedish peasant is required to express the injustice of his lot via the line: "Though I sleep on dung, I must hold my tongue." Kristina 2010-04-15T21:00:00Z Shown a room heaped with horse dung, the child gleefully began digging. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z He finally snapped, like a farmer spotting Janet Street Porter on his land: "I just want to throw dung at everyone!" Nancy Banks-Smith on The Archers 2011-02-09T08:00:02Z The hotel’s proprietor suggests that maybe “migration was encoded in her genes,” as it is for salmon, or the dung beetles that use the Milky Way for orientation. Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. This novel will change that. 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z “The latest demands for intellectual conformity may come in progressive packaging,” Kipnis writes, “but feminists and leftist should be flinging these pieties away like lumps of dung, not kowtowing to the virtue parade.” Feminist flamethrowers: Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the modern sex wars 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z We also got a lesson on details like telling white rhino dung versus black rhino dung. Frugal Traveler: D.I.Y. Africa 2014-03-28T17:21:42Z She is sitting on the proverbial dung heap, covered in boils. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 8: The View From the Dung Heap 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The group also possesses commercial appeal despite the origins of its name: Pilobolus is a genus of fungi that grows on herbivore dung. Review: Delayed by the Pandemic, Pilobolus Celebrates Its 50th 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Rare Vietnamese elephant and weasel coffees, gathered from the dung of the animals that ate the beans, will also be brewed. Smorgasburg Opens Latest Outpost, in Financial District 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z My already limited mind was getting jammed up with judgments on swearing, naturists, the decline of circuses, pop acts with unseemly manners and contemporary art sculpted from dung. If you want my opinion, what we need are experts, not windbags 2013-02-24T00:05:40Z “That’s fine for the pigs,” he went on, “but for the pasture, nothing beats dung beetles. They will clean up a pasture even better than pigs will.” The gardener’s little helper 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z We aren’t much more than mud, or cows, or dung, or fences. How to protect my children? 2013-03-12T00:00:00Z But the show redeems the moment by telling children something they probably didn’t know: When it comes to learning about an animal’s life, dung can be as valuable as fossils. Spare Times for Children for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Studies have found all kinds of natural materials mixed into structures from long ago: fruit extracts, milk, cheese curd, beer, even dung and urine. How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing? Scientists are unlocking their secrets 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z This allows them to live in all kinds of environments that insects with unprotected wings can’t get into—underneath tree bark, inside mammal dung or in birds’ nests, to name a few. The Secret to Beetles’ Unfathomable Diversity 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The animals breed prolifically, devour all manner of plants, distribute copious amounts of dung around waterways and associate people and cars with food. 'Round them up and castrate the boys'; California conservationists take aim at wild burros 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z But so far there has been no sign of the actual animals, other than large piles of dung and prints in the sand. Elephant corridors: The busy trunk routes where locals take care to cross 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z That sloth, extinct for about 10,000 years, was once the primary organism that helped spread Joshua tree seeds, through their dung. California’s iconic Joshua trees are burning up. They may be impossible to replace 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z In early 2000, Worobey left his doctoral studies in Oxford, flew to a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spent weeks collecting chimpanzee dung in the forest to test that hypothesis. The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z In 1999, Pushkin was sentenced to two years for “Dung for the President,” in which he overturned a dung cart at the entrance to the presidential office in Minsk, the country’s capital. Artist who dumped manure at Belarusian president’s office dies in prison, wife says 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z “At least 35 of them had cleared the once lush green meadow vegetation down to dirt. Piles of burro dung ringed the shore, spurring growth of a thick layer of algae,” he said. 'Round them up and castrate the boys'; California conservationists take aim at wild burros 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z When war stress gets to him, he likes to go and shovel elephant dung — it calms him down, he said. Sleepless in Kyiv: In wartime capital, the stress of long fight weighs on everyone. Somehow, people cope 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z They once supported a huge range of other species, including migratory birds that feed off the insects that thrive in bison dung. Bison Return to Native American Lands, Revitalizing Sacred Rituals 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Federal prosecutors say it was all a bunch of, well, cow dung. He raised millions to turn manure into green energy. It was all a load of cow dung 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Brewer told investors he was building anaerobic digesters that would turn their cow dung into methane that could be sold. Manure-to-green energy scammer gets prison time 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Larger animals slough off DNA in skin, scales, and feathers, and researchers have also detected eDNA from mussels, sponges, dung beetles, spiderwebs, and even carnivorous plants, on land and in water. Air pollution sensors can double as biodiversity monitors 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z With his innate ability at hucksterism and bombast, Trump is the crowning achievement of what American politics has become since Richard Nixon: a festering dung heap. Biden and McCarthy step back from the abyss: It's a huge defeat for Donald Trump 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Some dung fungi actually require passage through the digestive system of herbivores to complete their lifecycle. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the newly designated butterflies, Sauron has a namesake dinosaur, a dung beetle and a frog, according to the Natural History Museum. New Butterflies Are Named for Sauron, ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The villain's glowing eye has also been referenced in the names of a dung beetle, a frog and a dinosaur. Butterfly species named after Lord of the Rings villain Sauron 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z And there is probably less pig dung available for dung beetles. African swine fever settles into Asia 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z They consume carbon contained in the grasses they eat, then excrete it in their dung. Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Wherever they feed, the large mammals trample vegetation, affect tree growth and change soil composition with copious amounts of urine and dung. Hungry moose fingered as possible factor in climate change 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z So he was resorting to a mix of garbage, soil and pig dung to spread on his maize. Why do Russia and China have a stranglehold on the world’s food security? Fertilizers 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z She began playing aged six on pot-holed courts made of cow dung - a frugal trade-off between between clay and hard courts. Sania Mirza: India tennis icon who showed hate could be defeated 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z A pile of cow dung left in their wake perhaps summed up the political mood toward the proposal, which was ultimately abandoned. How New Zealand plans to tackle climate change: Taxing cow burps “They didn’t like the dung. What was I supposed to do, pick up after them?” To Save a Ruin, Send in the Sheep 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Somehow, elephant dung feels good in a place like this. Review: ‘Babylon’ douses you with sex, drugs, vomit and elephant diarrhea. You … might like it? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Previously, a dung beetle and some hare remains had been the only signs of animal life at the site, Willerslev said. Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z They knelt as Maranda smeared the stones with vermillion paste, bowed to the sacred plant and laid down fresh leaves covered in a cow dung paste. Clinging to ancient faith, India tribes seek religion status 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Rupert Murdoch has tossed him on the dung heap of history. We won't get fooled again — I think. Trump's back, but let's hope it's a brief visit 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Natural farming replaces all chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic matter such as cow dung, cow urine and jaggery, a type of solid dark sugar made from sugarcane, to boost soil nutrient levels. In dry, unreliable weather, Indian farmers restore arid land 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Radiocarbon dates from grass, dung, moss, and other organic material from the bottom of the gully are younger than Ötzi’s body, an indication that the site was open to the air. ‘Iceman’ discovery wasn’t a freak event. More frozen mummies may await 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Hill and Behrensmeyer scanned the ground for dung but instead spotted fossilized elephant footprints and raindrop impressions hardened in an exposed layer of volcanic ash that fell 3.66 million years ago. Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z We then put our hands in a pile of dung. 'I'm blind, but loved going on a must-see safari' 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z In one government office, protesters showed up with cow urine and dung. Gujarat: Cows let loose in India government buildings in protest 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Some substituted egg trays for cow dung, or omitted the plastic bags, but no matter the kindling, the goal was the same: to repel mosquitoes by means of smoke and other toxic fumes. Why the capital of India Is flush with mosquitoes 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “More than a billion people still live in poverty with many cooking food indoors using dried dung and wood, exposing families to toxic indoor air pollutants,” Mr. Sadar wrote in an email. Donate, advocate, pray for ‘creation care,’ evangelical group says in new report 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z A truce was called in the dung fight, and the others came to marvel at what had been found. Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z In modern ecosystems, Dr. Hutchinson pointed out, large migratory animals play an important role in the flow of nutrients — deposited in dung or carcasses — across the globe. The Megalodon Was Bigger, Faster and Even Hungrier 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Mr Bignall has also found a way to eliminate the use of peat completely - by burning sheep dung readily available on his farm. Whisky makers are turning their backs on peat 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In addition to burning cow dung and plastic, Delhi residents also use coils, liquids, and incense sticks to repel insects with odor and fumes. Why the capital of India Is flush with mosquitoes 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Yet to Saudi riches some of the biggest names in golf flocked again last week, like, you could say nicely, Diptera to dung. Perspective | Moral failings are in golf’s DNA. LIV is only the latest example. 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Moeller and his colleagues collected dung from several groups of African chimps and bonobos, isolating and sequencing microbial DNA in the feces that derives from the gut’s microbes. Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z For the yellow dung fly, sperm is best spent on virgins. A microscopic arms race is happening between sperm 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z On some nights, when the wind drifted south, he could smell the cattle, their dung giving off a lush, loamy scent. The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Fresh dung piles hinted that other elephants had recently visited. Elephants in Mourning Spotted on YouTube by Scientists 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In the past, most pollution deaths stemmed from indoor and household air pollution, caused by fine particles of soot released from indoor stoves burning wood or dung. Pollution caused 1 in 6 deaths globally for five years, study says 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z But people in rural areas are more likely to return to unclean options such as cow dung and firewood - which cause major health risks. Gas cylinder price: Indians face tough choices as cooking gas prices soar 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Boniface Mutize, who grows maize and soybeans just outside Harare, said he has started making his own fertilizer by mixing cow dung or chicken waste with zinc. Ukraine war fuels food crisis in distant Africa 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In Kurdistan, you can often determine a path’s strenuousness by the kinds of dung found along it. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Judging from the seeds in fossilized dung, Joshua trees were once dispersed across desert landscapes with help from elephant-size giant ground sloths. California Joshua tree is not threatened, regulators say. It could bring more development 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Iowa farmer Pat Reisinger is relieved he has dung from the pigs and dairy cows he raises to fertilize the corn, soybeans and hay he grows to feed those animals. Manure is a 'hot commodity' amid U.S. fertilizer shortage 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They imported superior breeds of livestock and penned the animals to control their breeding and collect their dung.They also adopted labor-saving technology. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “We mix cow dung or chicken waste with zinc,” he said. As sanctions bite Russia, fertilizer shortage imperils world food supply 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z We also saw gator dung, which we recognized from an exhibit at the visitor center. Alligators take center stage at Florida’s Everglades National Park 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In 2004, Wasser demonstrated that DNA from elephant tusks and dung could be used to pinpoint their home location to within a few hundred miles. DNA analysis of elephant ivory reveals trafficking networks 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z In fact, the villagers use dried yak dung to keep warm. Three international Oscar contenders look at destiny and determination 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The animals responded more aggressively to unknown hippos - with quicker, louder and more frequent calls, often accompanied by territorial displays of dung spraying. Hippos can recognise their friends' voices 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Though they have been labeled plants, fungi and even animals in the past, the protists coat wet and frequently decaying surfaces such as dead trees, leaf litter and even dung, often as single cells. See the Bizarre Fruiting Bodies of Slime Molds 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In the absence of the invertebrates and microbes in dirt that transform dung into harmless compost, Londoners' excrement flowed to the river and festered. Book review: The past, present, and future of poop 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The rest were showing physical stuff — works made not only from paint, but also scrap metal, elephant dung, taxidermied pigeons, hairdressers’ endpapers, wax, wool, black soap and bitumen. Will NFTs transform the art world? Are they even art? 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Two members of the team began playfully flinging dried elephant dung at each other. Ancient footprints suggest famed human ancestor ‘Lucy’ had company 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Gut bacteria help them digest these meals, and some escape in the dung excreted into the water. Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z In its earlier, mobile life stage, the quest for moisture, nutrients and delicious bacteria can take a slime mold to any appropriate living space, even animal dung. See the Bizarre Fruiting Bodies of Slime Molds 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The team trudged through patches of savanna, thickets, densely wooded wetlands and rivers following elephant tracks marked by broken tree branches, old dung piles and footprints, looking for fresh dung. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The solution: Trail their dung for genetic material. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z She was studying how Asian honeybees smear animal dung around their nests to ward off V. soror and Vespa mandarinia, more famously known as the murder hornet. I scream. You scream. Bees scream, too. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The team sequenced RNA from hippo dung and the pools, choosing ones with moderate flow, low flow, or no flow to assess the impact of ever-more concentrated dung. Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Workers in Laos gather bat dung for fertilizer, labor that may place them in proximity to bats in the caves. How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The solution: Trail their dung for genetic material. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Researchers want the dung “steaming fresh,” Stokes said. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Kaufman leans down to turn over a dried clump of dung — an offering from the cattle he brings to graze here twice a year. Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z A plasma gun has been firing at cow dung on the dairy Holly Green Farm, in a picturesque part of Buckinghamshire. Artificial lightning combats farm pollution 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “She was shoveling donkey dung into a pail. I asked her if she thought things had changed for the better. She replied, ‘This city is like donkey dung. Jonathan Mirsky, chronicler and critic of China, dies at 88 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The dung was more than a day old. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The team trudged through patches of savanna, thickets, densely wooded wetlands and rivers following elephant tracks marked by broken tree branches, old dung piles and footprints, looking for fresh dung. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The researchers suspected they would find signs of human disturbance—pollen from nonnative crops, spores from fungi that grow on livestock dung—dating back to the early 1400s. Vikings in paradise: Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z For these, farmers simply fill empty plastic bottles with refuse such as a mixture of cow dung, rotting eggs, ginger and garlic, then hang the smelly concoctions on wire fencing around their farms. Living ‘Bee Fences’ Protect Farmers from Elephants, and Vice Versa 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z It lives on dung, mostly from cows and horses, happily munching away, enriching the soil as it goes, until it starts to run out of dung to eat. What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Previous surveys relied on dung counts, which can be more expensive, more difficult and less reliable than DNA sampling on large-scale surveys, they said. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Previous surveys relied on dung counts, which can be more expensive, more difficult and less reliable than DNA sampling on large-scale surveys, they said. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The team found the young reptiles after spending four days scouring habitat sites where months earlier they had discovered footprints and dung. Hatchlings of endangered crocodile species found in Cambodia 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z To find out, in 2019 they began collecting samples from heaps of elephant dung. Reuniting an orphan elephant and her mom, perhaps, with DNA and luck 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Once eaten, the sporangium passes through the animal’s digestive system and is excreted back out in a rich pile of dung, whereupon the cycle of consumption and escape starts anew. What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Researchers want the dung “steaming fresh,” Stokes said. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The dung was more than a day old. Gabon is last bastion of endangered African forest elephants 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But the bird dung spiders’ mimicry serves yet another role. Looks Like Bird Dung. But It’s Really a Predatory Spider. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z “The Indian Prime Minister was asking people to bang their plates and pots at a certain hour; people in his conservative party were touting the powers of cow dung and cow urine,” he says. Pandemic fiction: Fall books include stories of the virus 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Do the fungi know something collectively that none of them know by themselves — when and how to strike out for new territory, away from the worn-out dung? What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The solitary, horned mammals were then so abundant that Wallace observed their tracks and dung “continually” during his time there. How Your Cup of Coffee Is Clearing the Jungle 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr Monbiot drew attention to damage wrought on rivers by farming as chemicals and nitrates from the dung of cattle, pigs and chickens ran into them. River pollution in Wales: Swimmers warned over sewage 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The findings have opened new questions on how the dung deception evolved. Looks Like Bird Dung. But It’s Really a Predatory Spider. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Her team’s newest study, published Thursday, found that dung beetles became confused under light-swamped skies. What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z I can’t help thinking of the behavior of the lowly Pilobolus as a metaphor for the space program: a species, responding to urges it doesn’t fully understand, aspiring to leave the dung pile. What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Squatting in a field, he examines dozens of holes excavated by dung beetles in just a few hours. 'Farmers can't forget what our grandparents taught us' 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z But dung fossils, called coprolites, are an “abundant and overlooked” source of ancient information, says Martin Qvarnström, a paleontologist at Sweden’s Uppsala University and lead author of the new study. Searching 230-Million-Year-Old Poop, Scientists Find a New Beetle 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z For the aptly named bird dung crab spiders residing in Southeast Asia’s tropical rain forests, such looks and smells are essential to survival in an eat-or-be-eaten world. Looks Like Bird Dung. But It’s Really a Predatory Spider. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z After a dung beetle arrives on a dung pile, it painstakingly cobbles together a snowball of dung larger than itself. What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Farmers grabbed piles of dung to use as fertilizer while bloggers set up their phones to film themselves. A herd of elephants has roamed 300 miles across China and is headed toward a city 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Soon, Eyl is showing her tiger dung that was used in Vietnam to conceal a radio transmitter. Perspective | Meet Patrice, the Spy Museum robot who is opening a secret world to hospitalized kids 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z As participants wait for the dung and urine mixture on their bodies to dry, they hug or honour the cows at the shelter, and practice yoga to boost energy levels. Indian doctors warn against cow dung as COVID cure 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Scientists captured dung beetles in a forest in Sabah, dissected them, then sequenced the DNA in their guts to find matches with nearby wildlife. In Case You Missed It 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Through a dung beetle’s compound eyes, stars appear as blobs, not as points of light. What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “The most reliable source of dung is from your fellow humans,” Drinkwater says. Humble dung beetles may be ideal DNA detectors for animal surveys 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Females are active from dawn through midmorning and again around dusk, and they will consume pretty much any animate matter they happen on, from antelope and baboons down to lizards, birds, rodents and dung beetles. How This Spot (in Mozambique) Got Its Leopard 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z In the long run, dung might not make a huge difference. Menaced by Murder Hornets, Bees Decorate Their Hives With Feces 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z A rhino’s dung feeds colonies of insects, and birds come to feed on the insects, and other predators come to catch the birds. The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z A few of the South African dung beetles now live in the lab in Lund, where the researchers sometimes study them under a fully simulated sky. What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Dung passes through dung beetles relatively quickly, within about 48 hours. Humble dung beetles may be ideal DNA detectors for animal surveys 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z His skill at sniffing out different animals’ dung has given conservationists a quick way to estimate those animals’ populations. Dogs put their noses to work saving wildlife 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Decorating one’s home with dung might sound indecorous, especially for the docile bees that so many people associate with candy. Menaced by Murder Hornets, Bees Decorate Their Hives With Feces 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z At day’s end, she would do the household chores and then work on the family farm, feeding the cattle, milking them and turning their dung into fuel cakes. Month on, women hold the fort at India farmer protests 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The bees used chicken poo, buffalo dung and even human urine to defend their hives. Asian honeybees 'defend hives from hornets with faeces' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Still, “dung beetles are a smart addition to the arsenal” of eDNA tools, says Michael Kinnison, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at the University of Maine, Orono. Humble dung beetles may be ideal DNA detectors for animal surveys 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Except that this dung lay on the stream’s bottom under 10 inches of cold, fast-flowing water. Dogs put their noses to work saving wildlife 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z When the researchers placed buffets of animal dung near several apiaries, bees harvested clumps of it, dabbing their nests in carefully mounded lumps, each roughly the size of a sesame or poppy seed. Menaced by Murder Hornets, Bees Decorate Their Hives With Feces 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The bees might also use the dung to mask the scent that hornets use to mark a hive for a mass attack. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Now, researchers say they have an explanation for these dung baths. Scientists finally think they know why these pandas like to roll in horse poop 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z “Sacrificing a lot of dung beetles to subsample their guts … seems unnecessary,” she says, adding she would prefer greater investment in nonlethal techniques such as sampling soils and sediments. Humble dung beetles may be ideal DNA detectors for animal surveys 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z She then sent the dung for DNA analysis to find out how many different foxes the samples represented. Dogs put their noses to work saving wildlife 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z But there’s no guarantee that all giant hornets will shy away from dung, said Margarita López-Uribe, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University who wasn’t involved in the study. Menaced by Murder Hornets, Bees Decorate Their Hives With Feces 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Beekeepers told him the bees added spots whenever giant hornets arrived; one noted he'd seen his bees collecting bits of water buffalo dung. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z To get to the bottom of things, researchers analyzed 38 instances of dung rolling, captured on infrared cameras at the reserve from June 2016 to July 2017. Scientists finally think they know why these pandas like to roll in horse poop 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The Europeans were less friendly, calling it devil's dung and stinking gum. Asafoetida: The smelly spice India loves but never grew 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Nearly two-thirds of the 500,000 deaths of infants documented were associated with indoor air pollution, particularly arising from solid fuels such as charcoal, wood, and animal dung for cooking. Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The trader, Andrew Myrick, was reported to have answered, “Let them eat grass or their own dung.” Opinion | Abraham Lincoln didn’t deserve Portland’s wrath 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Then the researchers collected the dung of various kinds of animals from neighboring farms. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z He says the unfettered pursuit of money is "the dung of the devil" and castigates industrial nations for exploiting the raw materials and labor of the developing world. Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: Another step toward Christian fascism 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z They’re also working with local villagers to create affordable deterrents to crop raiding—such as chili powder that’s mixed with dried cow dung and burned, or with car grease smeared onto rags. Squeezing the Elephant 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Namibia’s health minister has warned against the use of elephant dung, traditionally steamed and inhaled as a cure for the flu, to ward off coronavirus. Coronavirus live news: global cases approach 22 million; WHO says Covid spread by 'unaware' younger people 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The nitre beds were large rectangles of rotted manure and straw, moistened weekly with urine, “dung water,” and liquid from privies, cesspools and drains, and turned over regularly, according to accounts at the time. During the Civil War, the enslaved were given an especially odious job. The pay went to their owners. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z They placed samples around the hives, captured bees on the dung, and painted their backs to confirm that those bees were bringing it back to the hives. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The bison will not be given any food or artificial shelters, though their health will be monitored by observing their coats and examining their dung. Wild bison to return to UK for first time in 6,000 years 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Conservationists monitored the gorillas’ activity by identifying their nests, dung and feeding trails. Group of six rare Cross River gorillas caught on camera in Nigeria 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Many Namibians have turned to natural remedies in the hope of protecting themselves against coronavirus, including the use of elephant dung. Coronavirus live news: global cases approach 22 million; WHO says Covid spread by 'unaware' younger people 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The gorillas are extremely shy of humans and their presence is detected mostly by their nests, dung and feeding trails, experts say. Rare gorillas in Nigeria captured on camera with babies 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Mattila suspects there's something in the dung that repels the hornet. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z He abandoned his earlier study of the risk of accidents from nuclear power plants to study a more widespread environmental hazard: smoke from solid fuels — typically wood, charcoal, coal or dung. Kirk R. Smith, scientist who warned of health hazards of open-fire cooking, dies at 73 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Most vegans would say it’s just silly to say fruit and veg are animal products and plenty are produced without animal dung. Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “There are numerous studies that show the impact bison recovery has for an ecosystem— all the way down to dung beetles, bird species, prairie dogs and carnivores,” said Adams. The bison calf taking the first step to rewild the Canadian prairies 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z It yielded varieties of fruit, nuts, vegetables and spices with the use of llama and alpaca dung as fertiliser. Meet the original eco warriors protecting the planet 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z But that seems less likely, Mattila says, because the hornets mark the hive in various places and the bees concentrate the dung at the entrance. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The freshly exposed ground was littered with iron horseshoes and nails, walking sticks, shattered sleds, woolen mittens, leather shoes, the bones of dead horses, and piles of horse dung. Hidden Viking trade route emerges from melting ice in Norway 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z It was a sunny March afternoon, a few days before the novel coronavirus began shutting down much of California, and the smell of cow dung was doing nothing to dampen Schlyer’s enthusiasm. Cow poop could fuel California's clean-energy future. But not everyone's on board 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Instead, their dung and urine accumulate in small corrals where they spend their nights sequestered from lions and other predators. Rootin’, poopin’ African elephants help keep soil fertile 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z It is a blistering day in the Senegalese coastal town of Joal and a group of biologists are standing in a motorised dugout canoe, scanning the cyan waters for floating manatee dung. ‘A manatee is worth more alive’: the mission to save Africa’s sea mammals 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The researchers argue the bees are using the dung as a tool, because they're gathering a foreign material and manipulating it for a specific purpose. Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z It's one of the poorest countries in the world, and most people live in mud and thatch homes heated by burning wood, coal or dung. Which were the worst blizzards? Here are the deadliest storms in history 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z “Why would we need to be afraid of tiger’s dung since we are not scared of the tiger?” he said. Cambodian leader blasts online misinformation about virus 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “I worked in radio a while back and he’s not funny, he’s just a piece of dung.” Meghan Markle’s estranged half-sister boasts she was ‘right all along’ about the Duchess of Sussex 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Back on the research boat, as an afternoon of sampling winds down, and the weather warms and mellows and stills, it’s impossible not to notice the spicy scent of dung and fertilizer in the air. Delta smelt: the tiny fish caught in California's war with Trump 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Leaves, flowers, dung—some part of every organism that lives around a lake ends up in the water. DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z But that soil becomes saturated with carbon, so if more dung is deposited beyond that point it continues to cause environmental problems. Question Time under-30s special fact-checked 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Each animal, he said, contains three hundred and sixty million gods, and even its dung has elixirs beneficial to humans. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But when they injected the RNA into dung beetle larvae, it wasn’t just the wings that were reduce in size or completely absent. Dung beetles borrowed wing genes to grow their horns 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Now they collect the dung themselves, using their bare hands. Special South African gin is infused with elephant dung 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Joshua trees were once dispersed across landscapes with help from elephant-sized giant ground sloths, a finding based on the abundance of seeds found in fossilized dung. Climate change may imperil Joshua trees; group seeks tougher California protections 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But that’s like telling people because bull dung is on the buffet table that makes it automatically a legitimate entree. Impeachment: The Democrats’ chosen recourse to overturn 2016 election 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z "The Apprentice, despite being roughly as enjoyable as getting pelted with sun-hardened donkey dung, inexplicably remains a thing," he said last year. How can The Apprentice stay fresh after 15 years? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps they kept the fires alive by adding slow-burning animal dung. How fire forged the modern economy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The gin bottles are marked with the date and coordinates of where the elephant dung was collected. Special South African gin is infused with elephant dung 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It says the female tumblebug will lay only one egg inside each ball of dung, allowing the developing larvae to have all the resources they need without having to compete with their siblings for nourishment. Great Smoky Mountain park rangers release rolling poop video 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z With Trump’s every incoherent utterance, racism is the elephant dung in the room. Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It's time to say it 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z U.S. investors are beginning to smell an opportunity in the waste-to-energy market, where livestock dung and food garbage is traded. Turning rotten food and poop into energy: Investors smell an opportunity 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z A trailer for the programme, Man vs Wild, which will air in India on Monday, shows the two men cutting through forests, sniffing animal dung and floating down a river on a makeshift raft. India's strongman PM: Modi to appear on Bear Grylls' Man vs Wild 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z “I even touched the elephant dung, and being close to the animals are very majestic,” said one South African visitor, Elsabe Hannekom. Special South African gin is infused with elephant dung 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The male will help bury the balls of dung in the ground for safe keeping. Great Smoky Mountain park rangers release rolling poop video 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z A blend of one part dung to nine parts coal burns steadily - essential for cement ovens that work continuously at up to 1,400 degrees Celsius. Camel dung fuels cement production in northern UAE 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Air pollution in India is caused by fumes from cooking on wood or dung indoors in villages, and a combination of traffic exhaust, soot and construction dust and factory emissions in the cities. India's unique way to beat air pollution 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z More than 500 firefighters were deployed to battle a wildfire — likely caused by chicken dung spontaneously combusting — in the Tarragona province of Catalonia. Melting Autobahn, jaguars in pools, naked men on scooters: Europe faces an ‘inferno’ 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Each company has armed its employees with pool skimmers to scoop up buckets of dung. Tampa Bay horse tours leave poop in water 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z In addition, the National Park Service says the beetles also do hikers a favor by keeping trails free of aromatic decomposing animal dung. Great Smoky Mountain park rangers release rolling poop video 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Wasser and his colleagues built a reference map of genetic variations in elephant populations across Africa by extracting and analyzing DNA from thousands of dung samples collected by park rangers, scientists and volunteers. Sam Wasser pours his intense passion for protecting wildlife into research and catching poachers 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z The methane in their dung is gobbled up by methane-eating bacteria in the soil, which break the greenhouse gas down into hydrogen and carbon. Climate-friendly farming is taking root in New York 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Nature’s pick of the top five science books to read this week includes the science of magic, dung beetles on parade, and the unexplored depths. Daily briefing: Deep-sea fish have developed their own way of seeing colour 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Now, thanks to experiments by entomologists such as Marcus Byrne, we know that dung beetles can navigate by the Milky Way. The science of magic, dung beetles on parade, and the unexplored depths: Books in brief 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In Australia, the lack of native dung beetles able to deal with the prodigious output from imported European cattle led to vast swathes of pasture being rendered useless in the 1960s. Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z “I’m coming in from the road now,” Spinks answered, prompting Arum to roar another word for bull dung. Title fights often marked by week of bizarre and crazy events 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z While the dung was used for fuel and building material, salts from the urine remain trapped in layers of sediment beneath the village. Ancient goat urine reveals how Anatolian farmers began domesticating their herds 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z From the 1960s to the 1980s, there was a large-scale introduction of dung beetles into Australia to handle the excrement of another introduced species, beef cattle. Moving Dung Is a Dirty Job. These Beetles Live for It. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z They mourned the dead bushbuck but squealed when they saw the elephant dung. In Forlorn Park, Lion Cubs Play in Traffic and Elephant Dung Is Met With Delight 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Cow dung is often used to plaster houses, a task often left to women. 'Why I broke the law to undergo FGM aged 26' 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The search ends with Levi and his bride trying to amass urea from chicken dung and python excrement. In his element: looking back on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Collection or purchase of fuel is a burden, and household air pollution from burning solid fuels such as wood, charcoal and animal dung causes more than 3.5 million premature deaths annually. How Humans Get in the Way of Clean Water 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z It was historically restricted to farm animal dung, not human excrement, so we didn’t use that. Poop research might get a more polite name 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z That dung washed into the lake, where it was eaten by oribatid mites, a half-millimeter-long spider relative that lived in the lake. Mites that feed on llama poop may track the rise and fall of the Incan Empire 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Take human blood, put it in a glass phial and keep it covered in dung for forty days. The History of Blood 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z They use cow dung to keep mosquitoes and flies off, burning it to ashes with which they cover their skin. The best photographs of 2018 – and the stories behind them 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The use of wood, charcoal and dried dung for fuel and heating also creates harmful pollution within rural homes. Bad air kills more than a million Indians a year, study says 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z For the next 25 years, the importation, quarantine and release of dozens of species of dung beetles became a national priority. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The spores of a fungus called Sporormiella live on herbivore dung and are often used to track past populations of large plant eaters, including ice age giants like mastodons and mammoths. Mites that feed on llama poop may track the rise and fall of the Incan Empire 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Even God’s only son may be transformed by the act: the stercoranistes, an early Christian sect, believed in a double transubstantiation, Christ into the communion wafer, and thence into dung. Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z I was meant to gather my cow’s dung in it. Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Others weren’t so choosy: a family of four climbed out of a bed of farm vehicles hauling cows and goats, dung still stuck to the wheels of their stroller, which had given them a lift. Two weeks into journey across Mexico, migrants face illness, exhaustion and danger 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The common thread between wood and dung decaying fungi may be the shared interest in attacking tough plant fibers like lignin and in repelling the insects that compete with them. Magic Mushroom Drug Evolved to Mess with Insect Brains 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z A thin coil of smoke appeared, then a tiny glowing coal nestled in dung. Hunting in Tanzania the Way Our Earliest Ancestors Did 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The soil from which he bloomed was richly dunged. The Vexing Analogies of “Fahrenheit 11/9” 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The new work builds on more than a decade of research by the UW team, which first analyzed thousands of elephant dung samples from across Africa to document genetic diversity and distinguish different elephant populations. Who’s killing Africa’s elephants? UW study identifies ivory trafficking cartels 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z After receiving two cows as a dowry, she decided to use their dung to generate biogas for her home. Rooftop farming: why vertical gardening is blooming in Kampala 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z As a result of the chemical warfare going on between fungi and insects in dung and dead logs, these results also suggest decay mushrooms may be a good place to search for new neuro-active drugs. Magic Mushroom Drug Evolved to Mess with Insect Brains 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z She also found the highest levels of a spore from a fungus called Sporormiella that grows only on dung. Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z There, hordes of flies swarm above a festering field of grey-black dung. How animal waste is helping turn China's lakes green 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z I’ve collected fresh dung, and that’s been sent to a lab for DNA analysis to determine if it’s a new species or not. How Google Earth led a team of scientists to discover an untouched mountaintop rainforest 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Workers in this society literally eat their queen’s dung in order to prepare themselves to care for her children, a new study suggests. Eating poop makes naked mole-rats more motherly 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The grazing livestock not only provide farmers with an income, but the animals’ dung, urine and even the way they graze, accelerates soil restoration. If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer | Isabella Tree 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Evidence of white nose syndrome was discovered in New Mexico soil samples and samples of bat dung last spring, but further testing this month determined it was not yet in the state. Carlsbad Caverns’ 500K bats face threat of deadly syndrome 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Prince Michel gained expertise in planting bombs in cow dung on roads on which the Nazis would drive. Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, European royal and Allied paratrooper, dies at 92 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z He mostly eschews radio collars for less intrusive data-collection methods, such as analysing frozen dung for stress hormones, and photogrammetry — assessing an animal’s health from photographs. Arctic odysseys: science among sea bears and musk oxen 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z We were encouraged to squeeze clumps of dung. Should Tourists Ride Elephants in Thailand? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Birds that feed on insects attracted by this nutritious dung are rocketing. If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer | Isabella Tree 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z In its native environs, the plant’s perfume mimicking decomposing carrion attracts pollinators like dung beetles, sweat bees and flesh flies, which crawl into the flower and get covered in its pollen. Reeking 'corpse flower' is poised to bloom at Huntington Library 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Some academics believe cellulose taken from dung has even more high-tech potential thanks to the quadruple-bellied digestion power of a cow. The startup making shirts out of cow poo 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z He pitches carnivore dung at moose, baseball-style, to see whether they respond to the scent, or wears a polar-bear costume made from cloth and styrofoam to get close to musk oxen and study their reactions. Arctic odysseys: science among sea bears and musk oxen 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “Look at this,” she says, grabbing at the hay stuck into the water trough and pointing to the dung clogging it. 'This one has heat stress': the shocking reality of live animal exports 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z When fuel is burned inefficiently — particularly hunks of solid fuel, like wood or dried dung — it produces a dizzying and dangerous array of noxious gases and particles containing traces of dozens of toxic constituents. Undercooked: an expensive push to save lives and protect the planet falls short 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Elephants help to propagate the trees when they eat baobab fruit, with seeds often sprouting in the nutritious elephant dung. Africa’s iconic baobab trees dying off at alarming rate 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Last month, a judge told government officials they appeared to be helpless after an environmental lawyer argued that pollution and insect dung were discoloring the 17th-century building. Top India court slams gov’t for ignoring upkeep of Taj Mahal 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Pollution, construction and insect dung are said to be among the causes. India is 'failing' to protect Taj Mahal 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z And so does spreading animal dung on the fields to help crops grow. Young will pick up 'climate change bill' 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Guano, a gentler word for dung, is one of the few words in English derived from Quechua, the language of the Incas. The unlikely treasure off Peru’s coast 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z They’re curious, playful animals, and Hunter says littermates will sometimes pick up sticks—or even elephant dung—and chase each other around with it in a feline game of tag. Leopard Plays With Prey’s Own Bones 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Because it occurs on animal dung, an abundance of it in a sediment core is often taken to indicate high numbers of big herbivores. Big data little help in megafauna mysteries 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z A future, theater-based version may include the smells of horse dung and rotting fruit. Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The giant African mammals generate 52,800 metric tons of dung each year, enough—according to two new studies—to pollute ecosystems and kill fish by the hundreds. Excess hippo dung may be harming aquatic species across Africa 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z And execution was the ultimate punishment for anyone who disturbed the sea birds or the islands where they deposited dung. The unlikely treasure off Peru’s coast 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Fossil evidence in tyrannosaur dung indicates that these large predators chomped through bones. Scratches on dinosaur teeth reveal their fierce, efficient eating habits 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Along the way Fay collected a huge amount of data, including animal dung, GPS readings every 20 seconds, and birdsong recordings. From the Vault: Shoes That Made Our Greatest Explorations Possible 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Nunes I believe is a dairy farmer, but his boots smell like hog and chicken dung. How Devin Nunes Turned the House Intelligence Committee Inside Out 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z They used robotic boats to survey the pools and built small dams to construct and flush an artificial hippo pool to verify this role of hippo dung. Excess hippo dung may be harming aquatic species across Africa 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Since March a census team has been traversing Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, collecting the gorillas’ dung and examining their nests for hair samples and other clues. Uganda counts gorillas amid tourism-boosting ‘baby boom’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Wasser and his colleagues have collected enough dung and DNA over the past 15 years to create a map of every elephant population in Africa, including their localized DNA mutations. Poachers versus Poop 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z A mat of dead vegetation — from cover crops, cash-crop residue and dung — covered Williams’s fields. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z |
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