: any of various large chiefly tropical scarab beetles (subfamily Dynastinae) having projecting horns on thorax and head
Illustration of rhinoceros beetle
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Recent Examples on the WebChances are good that you would be startled to find a rhinoceros beetle perched over your bed one night.Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022 Heracross, with its giant horn, bears a striking resemblance to the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, for example. Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2021 So, too, palm-size rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles. Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 13 May 2020 In the wild, rhinoceros beetles use their horns as weapons to variously lift, flip, or toss other males into the air in fights for dominance during mating season.National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020 In February 2010, a shipment of 2,752 beetles of various species, including many rhinoceros beetles, was intercepted at the post office in La Paz.National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020 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, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2019 See More