A recent study shows a lack of birds and rats — due to the brown tree snake — is making it easier for rhino beetles to breed in the crowns of coconut trees, something that usually doesn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...