Ever heard of the Elephant Beetle? Megasoma elephas is a species of rhinoceros beetle, and one of the largest beetles in the WORLD! If you’re veeery lucky, you may spot one in the rainforests of Costa Rica, just like Jim and Coyote. Do you love beetles? 🪲 | Brave Wilderness

Palaeoloxodon or Elephas falconeri? I use Elephas in the video to honor the signage present. A dive into the literature shows both genus names have been used. Originally named Elephas, it was changed to Palaeoloxodon, but some folks (holdouts?) continued using Elephas. I’ll paraphrase Billy Shakes, “A super-cute pachyderm by any name is still a super-cute pachyderm!” This fun-sized elephant is fully adult! Yep, not a juvenile, this is about as max-sized as this species grew. I’m sure you have ma