Coolest. Bug. Ever.

ew ew ew ew ewwwwwwwwwwwww!

^sissy!

surely we can do better *findthumb

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^even sifty is freaked out by it.

It looks like a section of someone's spine crawling around. How awesome is that!

Here's a photo of a related species:
here

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Here's another weird bug on the sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Crazy-Bolivia-Bug-strange-hairy-caterpillar

Looks like the missing link between caterpillars and bugs with legs.

Looks like a zerg to me, sarge.

No fucking way! You guys are not nearly impressed enough.

Dunno how familiar everyone is with trilobites, but they "were" one of the earliest species of life on earth first showed up over 500 million years ago and lived for nearly 300 million years before going extinct. Or did they?

In my geography class we spent a weekend in Death Valley in piles of shale searching for trilobite fossils (if you got a whole body you get extra credit) and we spent much of the semester discussing them. During that whole time I continually imagined what they might have "really" looked like, then I come onto this "video shift" site where, lo and behold, there's a fricken video of one just strutting around town like it's shit doesn't stink!!! It's not just a funny looking bug, but a living fossil, and it blows my mind! Not once did my professor ever mention they have living relatives. And are they direct descendants meaning they didn't really go extinct??? WTF!

(Disclaimer: For any biblical creationists, replace each "million" above with "hundred." Kthx.)

I dont know the specifics, but the name alone, or likeness, doesnt mean its descended from trilobites, I'm pretty sure trilobites ARE extinct, and this one is named as such because it looks trilobite'ish , and lets be honest, many insects do look similar in shape to trilobites (ie: segmented body etc)

Thought they were extinct too. Wish they had shown it all rolled up, we used to fish them out of the creek as balled up fossil marbles. Very cool.

Holy shit run for your lives its that thing from Wraith of Kahn, cover your ears damn you.

i wish there was a size reference, like someone holding it in their hand, or it crushing a building. it could go either way.

Dear Evolution:

You are one crazy bitch.

Sincerely,
Ryan.

By the way, my comment doesnt mean that this isnt awesome. And where is that *cute tag anyway? awwww!

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I miss trilobites, maybe even more than dinosaurs, though not as much as megatheriums.

Indeed, don't get too darn excited, you obviously didn't pay that much attention in your classes. For starters, Trilobites, the uber cool real ones were sea dwellers. And secondly, this is just a name someone has applied to the thing, it is not a trilobite at all.

So don't get too excited, it is just one seriously funky looking animal that looks like it's come straight out of the dinosaur age.

This is a larval stage of a beetle of this sort, and trilobites did not fly.

Doesn't detract from the coolness of this thing, but it's not a living prehistoric bug.

I miss Megalodon, but that's only cause I'm never in water deeper than I am... and I'd like to see a real sift about one.

The "neotenous" tag implies that this is not a larval stage, but rather a sexually mature adult that retains larval characteristics. So,to second spoco2's comment, it's either a beetle larva, or an adult that looks like one. "Trilobite" is just it's common name.. kinda like how a "tiger beetle" isn't actually a tiger.

Now, what weirds me out is that I found something that looks very similar to this a few months back, but it didn't have a head! I had an entomologist look at the pictures. Here's and excerpt from her response:
"think it is a Lycidae larvae (coleoptera), they also called them trilobite larvae (stupid name!)".

Here's a video explaining how trilobites and the trilobite beetle are similar.

Blankfist, you son of a bitch...

That was beautiful. Well done.

lmfahs

Dammit,
Blankfist LOL
That was out of nowhere!

*Promote that which gives me nightmares.

My shrink said it would be good for me.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, April 11th, 2008 9:44pm PDT - promote requested by kronosposeidon.

It looks like something Hans Ruedi Giger would make!