Dung Beetle Devours Millipedes

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Dung Beetle Devours Millipedes,
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer,
posted: 20 January 2009,
LiveScience.com,

"A species of dung beetle has ditched its excrement-eating ways in favor of millipedes. And the beetle shows no mercy, often decapitating the leggy insect before devouring it, a new study finds."