hercules beetle

(Animals) a very large tropical American scarabaeid beetle, Dynastes hercules: the male has two large anterior curved horns

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Dan Gordon, keeper of biology, with a hercules beetle New exhibition being set up at The Great North Museum.

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He returns three years later with the insect his father was looking for, the giant Goliathus Hercules beetle, which stands the scientific community on its head.

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The exhibition also features Charles Lee's Dissipative System, a wall of touchable tiles that change color in response to heat--mimicking the color, humidity, and temperature changes in the exoskeleton of a Hercules beetle.

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