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From David Attenborough's Life In The Undergrowth series:


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FUCKING. AWESOME. :shock:
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While I'm generally against anything that eats bats :D I must agree with Pick.
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Nature never ceases to amaze.

I knew snakes in Borneo did similar things to catch bats as they exit their cave, but I didn't think a centipede would be fast enough. When it began climbing the cave, I thought it would just nab one of the resting bats. But no, it actually grabs it midair. Insane.

This reminds me why I need to get every single nature series narrated by David Attenborough.
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Oh man!

I smell new Batman villain!
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Velvet Worms are fucking out there too. Think of a slug with nubby little legs and giant fangs. I watched a show on Animal Planet where they showed one in action and it disturbed me deeply.
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Creepy as hell, but very cool. I'll likely imagine one of those buggers crawling around my house for a good week.
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Tasoth wrote:Velvet Worms are fucking out there too. Think of a slug with nubby little legs and giant fangs. I watched a show on Animal Planet where they showed one in action and it disturbed me deeply.
That's weird, because the picture on the Wiki makes it look kind of cute and fuzzy.
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Geezus, what is wrong? I can't view the video, I get the audioo but I can't watch any videos today for some strange reason, no matter who the host is. Maybe I need to reboot :?
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Your computer is trying to make sure you won't have nightmares, Mrs. K :wink:

Seriously, that goddamned thing is a foot long! That's creepy as hell. Let us all give thanks for the fact that we live in a northern climate where insects like that cannot survive.
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Amen.
'Next time I let Superman take charge, just hit me. Real hard.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
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'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
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Darth Wong wrote:Your computer is trying to make sure you won't have nightmares, Mrs. K :wink:

Seriously, that goddamned thing is a foot long! That's creepy as hell. Let us all give thanks for the fact that we live in a northern climate where insects like that cannot survive.
Oh ok, so I don't want to see it. Thanks for the heads up Mike :) I won't bother now.
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That thing is even technically an insect? Wow.
'Next time I let Superman take charge, just hit me. Real hard.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
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'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
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'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
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Batman wrote:That thing is even technically an insect? Wow.
It's considered an insect because "fucking monster" is not technically recognized as a species.
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Centipedes aren't considered insects. It's in class Chiropoda, not Insecta: but they are closely related. Darth Wong's reply cracked me up, though. And that is one amazing video.
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I knew I shouldn't have watched that. Now I can feel it crawling up my leg... :(
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Ok, that was fucking creepy! I, for one, am glad that those things can't live in North America, because you know it would only be a matter of time before we see...

CENTIPEDES ON A PLANE!!!

Damn, Samuel L. Jackson's never gonna get any rest.
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Nice, but it's in black and white, and there isn't much needing technicolour.

That said, I'll be looking for that series at the DV store...
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As stupid as it sounds, this is why I'm glad I don't live in the Paleozoic era.
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It's like a face hugger when it gets a hold of that bat, only, you know, bigger. Much bigger (respectively).
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Looky looky! A giant centipede eating a mouse. And what's scary is that it is in a glass terrarium. Someone keeps these beasts as pets!
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Tasoth wrote:Looky looky! A giant centipede eating a mouse. And what's scary is that it is in a glass terrarium. Someone keeps these beasts as pets!
I saved that when I first saw it, because I find these creatures fascinating.

I'm pretty sure this guy was featured in Attenborough's latest project, the highly acclaimed Planet Earth in the cave based episode. They also had a snake that could do the same sort of thing in total darkness by using its sense of smell and thermal imaging system to pluck bats out of the darkness instantly.

There's something to be said of long creatures with venom that have either a fuckton of legs, or none at all.
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Late Paleozoic Era. Insects the size of men near enough. Eagles would be food for dragonflies and centipedes the size of Great Danes prowled the land. The things we call scary insects today are proverbial Care Bears next to what we could be seeing.
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Post by WyrdNyrd »

Isn't the size of insects limited by their reliance on an exoskeleton?

I thought this this limit prevented man-sized bugs, or does it only kick in somewhere between "man-sized" and "B-movie monster bug"?
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Reminds me of those creatures in the latest King Kong movie
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Lagmonster wrote:As stupid as it sounds, this is why I'm glad I don't live in the Paleozoic era.
Would that have something to do with...
Admiral Valdemar on 21/4/06 wrote: Late Paleozoic Era. Insects the size of men near enough. Eagles would be food for dragonflies and centipedes the size of Great Danes prowled the land. The things we call scary insects today are proverbial Care Bears next to what we could be seeing.
I figure I'm low enough on the food chain as it is without adding in massive, deadly things that don't even have the brainpower to be afraid of me.
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