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The largest beetle in the world is the size of a hamster
About the size of a hamster - that this is the world's largest beetle. This kind of living in South America, and was naming "dorovosek titan," which in Latin means - Titanus giganteus.
It is interesting to know that in any museum of the world is not provided with a copy of this beetle more than 17 centimeters, but an entomologist and popular scientific figure named U. Martins, says that personally he was caught, but then released into the wild, the representative of these beetles giants length 22 cm. Zhukov large, modern science does not know.
Source: www.rekordy-ginnesa.ru
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