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Strongest Insect Is a Dung Beetle Scientists were finally able to identify the strongest insect in the world. Their “champion” is a species of dung beetle apparently able to pull on roughly 1,141 times its own body weight. Translated in humans, this means that a 70-kilogram individual could pull six full double-decker buses. This ability ...	24 March 2010 03:25 GMT

How to Get Vanilla Perfume from Cow Dung Well, many things have a nasty smell, but what about that nasty thing smelling like vanilla? If not the whole thing, at least part of it...A team at the state-run International Medical Center of Japan has managed, in co-operation with Sekisui Chemical Co, to extract vanilla scent from cow dung. "A one-hour heating an...	6 October 2007 06:37 GMT

Mammoth Dung is Going to Boost Global Warming A trip into the Siberian tundra will remind you now of a visit at a cow farm. Because of the scent. But what you smell is not cow dung, but mammoth one: this is the syrupy mud, resulted from the thawing of the permafrost. Just another symptom of global warming: the prehistoric dung lifted from suspended animation. An...	20 September 2007 04:48 GMT

Dung Mites Talk About Inca Empire The glory and the decadence of the mighty civilizations could now be tracked by ... dung! A French-British-American team has found a method to assess the rise and fall the ancient Inca empire by investigating tiny mite preserved in the mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake. Counting the number of fossilized mit...	27 March 2007 05:44 GMT

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