The Sygnia Incident Response team has been tracking the group, which it named Elephant Beetle, aka TG2003, for two years. In a Wednesday report, the researchers called Elephant Beetle’s attack ...

Its scientific name is Megasoma elephas, but it's called the elephant beetle. Just look at it and you can guess why. The insect is one of two elephant beetles currently at American zoos.

But for elephants, it will take a bit longer. This led them to an interesting question: how many beetles does elephant dung attract? When they visited the Laikipia region in central Kenya ...

Those insects, called Megasoma, or elephant beetles, make the ones in my Texas backyard look tiny. Full grown, they’re closer to the size of a baked potato than a plum and are covered with rust- ...

Remember to avoid driving over elephant dung to ensure you don’t squash any beetles! Dung beetles have dark, round bodies, ...

The largest may be the elephant dung beetles of the genus Heliocopris, different species of which are found in Africa and Asia and can reach 70 millimetres. As the name suggests, these feed in the ...

These include titan beetles, Goliath beetles, rhinoceros beetles and elephant beetles. They can be the size of a mouse. “Some of these beetles are so big and strong that you try to hold that ...