International Congress of Neuroethology, College Park, Md., August 5–10

Galloping dung beetles
Pachysoma dung beetles in Africa have a gait never before described in insects — almost a gallop. Biologists hadn’t recognized the motion because it’s hard to see scuttling beetle legs, said Jochen Smolka of Sweden’s Lund University. He videotaped beetle sprints and analyzed them in slow replays.