LOS ANGELES – Dozens of giant beetles hidden inside a shipment ... The specimens, which included scarab beetles, stag beetles and darkling beetles, will likely find their way to local zoos ...

But not all scarab beetles eat dung. Those that do include the earth ... The most recently named was a new species of giant dung beetle from India and Sri Lanka called Heliocopris ares, discovered ...

For no more than 30 minutes an evening, Andrew's dune scarab beetles emerge from the sands of the Algodones Dunes in southeastern California. In the fading twilight, between February and May, they ...

Fallout from the scarab beetles' invasion into urban Honolulu remains unknown, but the damage so far is "pretty bad," ...

The scarab beetle lays its eggs in a dung ball and so it appeared that new life sprang from this dead matter. Ancient Egyptians also believed that a god in the form of a giant scarab rolled the ...

Dozens of giant beetles hidden inside a shipment of Japanese snacks were uncovered at a US airport, customs officials said ...