April 7 (UPI) --A highly invasive wood-boring beetle was intercepted last month by U.S. border agents before it could destroy forests and ecosystems, Customs and Border Protection announced Monday.

The Scarab coffee table recalls the plated exoskeleton of the scarab beetle, which was a symbol of rebirth ... the fossilised tail of a Nile crocodile that was scanned from a real reptile. The bench's ...

She’s just three and a half years old, but Ziv Nitzan has a pretty impressive archaeological find to add to her résumé. Visiting the Tel Azekah site with her family from their home in the ...

Captivated by his stories of surviving on bugs during his military service in World War II, she spent her childhood scouring the dry fields for crickets, bamboo worms, and scarab beetles hiding in ...

Scarab beetles, as Ben-Tor noted, held sacred status in ancient Egypt, symbolizing new life – as the Egyptian word for scarab comes from the verb meaning “to come into being.” As such ...

The scarab, shaped like a dung beetle, was regarded in ancient Egypt as a symbol of creation, renewal, and the divine. It was believed to be a representation of the Creator God and had a powerful ...

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, scarab seals are small objects that originate from ancient Egypt “and designed in the shape of a dung beetle," as the Facebook post cited.

We immediately reported this to the Israel Antiquities Authority.” The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in the news release.

Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority/Facebook Scarab-shaped amulets like the one Nitzan came across are small, ornate objects designed to emulate a dung beetle, according to the Israel Antiquities ...

When I picture the beetle, I am picturing both a jewel-coloured scarab, and a hunched man with a bowler hat (the latter, likely, an amalgam of author Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa and the cartoon ...

Real Madrid came through a topsy-turvy game with Leganes to claim a 3-2 victory and put pressure back on Barcelona in La Liga's title race. Kylian Mbappe scored in each half either side of a Jude ...