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Posted on 8/1/25 at 5:50 am to DavidTheGnome
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How the frick is an insect the size of a cat just now discovered
Posted on 8/1/25 at 5:57 am to RLDSC FAN
Australia is crazy as hell. I just learned a week ago that they had camels there. I thought was just Middle East/Asian thing.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:09 am to BPTiger
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I didn’t know there were rainforests in Australia. If someone asked me to name places with rainforests Australia would have been the last guess before Antarctica. ETA I picture it being so much further south than it really is
In a previous life I spent a few months on the northern coast of Australia for a military exercise with the Australians. Temps were regularly eclipsing 90 during the day in the dead middle of winter there (June, July).
Cairn, Darwin, etc. are about the same latitude as central Brazil and a quick flight to Papua New Guinea.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:21 am to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:43 am to RLDSC FAN
Scientists too busy modifying dna of corn and missed this beast of an insect?
Scientists have some splaining to do…
Scientists have some splaining to do…
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:40 am to DavidTheGnome
There is a whole unique ecosystem in the canopy of our forests, and just older growth trees in general. Many species of insects spend their entire existence, from egg to adult, in the canopy. Researchers who study the canopy get all the climbing training that arborists get, and they just hang out in the tops of trees all day. Kind of cool, if that is your thing.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:47 am to LegendInMyMind
I think we are beyond a stick bug. It’s more of a limb bug at this point.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:50 am to RLDSC FAN
Prolly wouldn't make a good gumbo.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:51 am to DavidTheGnome
I dunno, if i saw it’d i’d probably go the other way and pretend i didn’t.
I feel safer walking down Bourbon at 3am than holding that (without knowing what it is ahead of time)
I feel safer walking down Bourbon at 3am than holding that (without knowing what it is ahead of time)
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:52 am to RLDSC FAN
Crikey! What a beauty!
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:36 am to BPTiger
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I didn’t know there were rainforests in Australia.
Go look how close Northeast Australia is to Indonesia and Papau New Guinea, places you think of having rain forests.
Aussie is fricking huge and is very diverse biologically. Southeast Aus has some of the best vineyards and greenest areas on earth.
Its so vast and a HUGE portion of it there is nothing and no one there. Its not habitable really.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:58 am to DavidTheGnome
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How the frick is an insect the size of a cat just now discovered
I'm not even sure, but it's probably the same reason we haven't officially discovered Bigfoot yet
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:00 am to DavidTheGnome
Maybe 20 years ago i saw a documentary. They were in the rainforest and spread clean white sheets on the ground underneath a huge tree. They then fogged the tree to kill everything in the tree. All the bugs died and landed on the sheets.
They discovered over a thousand new kinds of bugs.
They also estimated at least three bugs went extinct in the process.
They discovered over a thousand new kinds of bugs.
They also estimated at least three bugs went extinct in the process.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:02 am to DavidTheGnome
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How the frick is an insect the size of a cat just now discovered
Well it is in Australia, and they've been pretty busy killing off civil rights in the name of Covid.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:04 am to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 8/1/25 at 11:07 am to Sun God
Great gif 
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