With as many as six people a week dying from overdoses of heroin and synthetic opiates in Broward County, county officials and drug experts met Wednesday to sound the alarm. They're unveiling a plan to deal with a South Florida crisis that reflects a nationwide epidemic. The warning is that the...
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules, Dynastinae) is a rhinoceros beetle native to the rainforests of Central America, South America, Lesser Antilles, and the Andes. They are large beetles, with some males reaching 17.5 cm including the horn, and a slightly iridescent coloration to their elytra, which also vary in color from beetle to beetle, and even depending on the humidity.
Lions of the extinct spelaea subspecies could be in fact the same with the Asiatic lion and were widespread in Europe until the end of the last glacial period. It persisted in the Balkans till 800 years ago and the Greek legend of the Hercules mentions lions in ancient Greece.