A giant of the insect world is disappearing at an alarming rate. The Goliath beetle (Goliathus cacicus and Goliathus regius), one of the largest beetles on Earth, is on the brink of extinction, and ...

We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the ...

We also found that Goliathus cacicus seemed to have gone extinct in several areas of west Africa, like the Banco Forest National Park in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. This is likely because thousands ...

We discovered that two of these giant insects, Goliathus regius Klug and Goliathus cacicus Olivier, are threatened with extinction. We also found that Goliathus cacicus seemed to have gone extinct in ...