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Dung Beetles Use the Sky to Navigate – but How Exactly? – The Wire Science
In experiments with a species of the dung beetle under a simulated night sky in a planetarium, scientists found that the Milky Way’s path could steer the insects’…
A pair of dung beetles. Photo: Kev Gregory/Flickr
Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on them, were intended to help the dead in a final judgment by the jackal-headed god of death, Anubis, who would weigh the hearts of the deceased to assess whether they were worthy of the afterlife.
The ancient Egyptians also believed that a dung beetle drove…
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