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rhinoceros beetle
noun
: any of various large chiefly tropical scarab beetles (subfamily Dynastinae) having projecting horns on thorax and head
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New England resident captures one on camera Where do the coconut rhinoceros beetles come from?
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Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
Coconut rhinoceros beetles were detected for the first time on islands statewide in subsequent months, while little fire ants caused serious concern on Oahu's windward coast.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
Weapons also are probably molded by the type of fighting and where it’s done — as borne out by work on the shapes of rhinoceros beetle horns by evolutionary biologist Erin McCullough.
—Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2019
The dung beetle’s coronation as the world’s strongest insect steals the thunder from the rhinoceros beetle, which can lift up to 850 times its own weight.
—Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2010
In the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, horns range from a stubby 7 millimeters to a towering 32.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2013
If the rhinoceros beetle were the size of an actual rhinoceros, its horn could be 16 feet long.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2013
There are antlers, rhinoceros beetle horns, peacock tails.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2015
Chances are good that you would be startled to find a rhinoceros beetle perched over your bed one night.
—Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
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Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
Coconut rhinoceros beetles were detected for the first time on islands statewide in subsequent months, while little fire ants caused serious concern on Oahu's windward coast.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
Weapons also are probably molded by the type of fighting and where it’s done — as borne out by work on the shapes of rhinoceros beetle horns by evolutionary biologist Erin McCullough.
—Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2019
The dung beetle’s coronation as the world’s strongest insect steals the thunder from the rhinoceros beetle, which can lift up to 850 times its own weight.
—Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2010
In the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, horns range from a stubby 7 millimeters to a towering 32.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2013
If the rhinoceros beetle were the size of an actual rhinoceros, its horn could be 16 feet long.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2013
There are antlers, rhinoceros beetle horns, peacock tails.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2015
Chances are good that you would be startled to find a rhinoceros beetle perched over your bed one night.
—Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
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“Rhinoceros beetle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhinoceros%20beetle. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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