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  • Finding Beauty In Dung

    05/08/2009 4:52:37 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 9 replies · 698+ views
    Today on Fresh Air, host Terry Gross interviews Douglas Emlen, professor of biology at the University of Montana. Emlen has devoted his life to an unlikely creature: the dung beetle. And deep in the wild beetle underworld, he has found natural beauty. These close-up photos of scarabs, taken by Emlen and other scientists, reveal rather pretty little critters. (And sometimes not so little -- rhinoceros beetles can measure up to several inches!)