hubba-WHA??? I'm gonna have nightmares now..

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eew..... uhhghhhhhghhhhh!!!!!

Ancient stick insect once through extinct found clinging to little bush on rock surface on tiny island in south pacific. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years

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SUCH A FRUSTRATING VIDEO!

>> ^flechette:

SUCH A FRUSTRATING VIDEO!


GOD I know! I just wanted to yank the little sucker out. "There you're free! Now don't ever be born again cause you SUCK at it!"

@moodonia ....You beat me to it on this one

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I don't think there is any * timeshift here. @Barseps

They skip forward a few times, but never speed up or slow down, unless I'm mistaken.

Just look how HUGE he is and think how he was once all packed up in that tiny little pod. Amazing.

"ALL COSMIC POWER!

...itty-bitty living space."

Looked like a vegan turd in the making to me.

>> ^Barseps:

@moodonia ....You beat me to it on this one
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There's just a few fade cuts, no time lapse or slow mo.
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>> ^Confucius:

Looked like a vegan turd in the making to me.


Vegans don't eat no tree lobster. Thinks they're too good fer it.

"Honey! Break out the clarified butter, it's tree lobster night!!!"

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Whoa! That thumbnail looks like something from Alien!

That's a tight fit.

The egg of the Dryococelus Australis: The clown-filled VW Beetle of the insect world.

The residents of Lord Howe island want to keep their rats, then?

Jesus christ, claustrophobia overwhelmed me. I started punching my screen and yelling at 4:40 to help knock his goddamn legs free. I already thought that it was a miracle for this species to have survived on this forsaken little island for so long with one little bush to cling to, but if this is what they have to go through to enter the world they deserve to take it over from humans. They do more work on the day they're born than most of us do in our lives.

Also, proof against creationism. Inefficiency on this level is a clear indication of no forethought or intent.

Such a beautiful analogy for life on this planet, clawing and scratching its way into existence.

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The residents of Lord Howe island want to keep their rats, then?


If getting rid of them means having these guys around, can you blame them?

That egg's top looks like it has a metallic ring... and how much of the egg is below ground?

a handful of hand sized stick insects, so, one stick insect...