This insect is an elephant stag beetle. The stag part of its name is derived from the large mandibles at the front of the beetle, which mimic male stag deer antlers. The elephant part refers to the ...

2015-08-11 11.31.12 - Close-up.jpg Male stag beetles use their mandibles to wrestle over mates. The larvae are important in the recycling of nutrients in decaying trees. (Clay Wollney) Since they ...

Beetles are some of the most diverse animals in the world, with around 400,000 known species living in a wide variety of habitats. They are famed for their particularly hard exoskeleton and powerful ...

Different animals exhibit all kinds of different behaviors when searching for mates in the wilderness, but perhaps one of the most fascinating belongs to that of the male stag beetle. The stag beetle ...