Form followed function. Erin McCullough from the University of Montana found a similar trend among smaller but no less impressively armed combatants—rhinoceros beetles. As their name suggests ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — While the spiked horns on rhinoceros beetles may ... “Imagine a beetle flying around with a pitchfork on the front of its head,” said Erin McCullough of the University ...

Rhino beetles love to fight and to hump. They use huge scoops on their heads to joust, launching each other off branches to win the right to mate. in this classy of a scene. That's darn near ...

At 2 1/2-inches long and sporting large horns on the front of its head, the coconut rhinoceros beetle is a remarkable-looking creature, but this lumbering giant of an insect is also a devastating ...

Male giant rhinoceros beetles (Trypoxylus dichotomus) have, relatively speaking, an enormous fork-shaped horn at their front. "In this species the horns can reach almost two-thirds the length of ...