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World's largest flying aquatic insect

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Why? Because why should you sleep, that's why.

The giant dobsonfly. It has giant face-pinching pincers and it flies.

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According to the Insect Museum of West China, local villagers in the outskirts of Chengdu handed over "weird insects that resemble giant dragonflies with long teeth" earlier this month.


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Several of these odd critters were examined by the museum and found to be unusually large specimens of the giant dobsonfly, which is native to China and Vietnam. The largest one measured 21 centimeters when its wings were open, according to the museum,

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(That's 8.3'' in American.)​

Flying, huge, face-eating sky-roaches. Oh sure, they're native to China and Vietnam, but once this article gets around, cue exotic pet smuggling, people releasing Fluffy into the wild once it gets too large/creepy/pinchy to handle, and before you know it it's face-eater-bug apocalypse.



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Meh. These guys apparently had wingspans of 65-75 cm, but they lived 300 million years ago, so you guys are good.

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Meh. These guys apparently had wingspans of 65-75 cm, but they lived 300 million years ago, so you guys are good.

*snip*

There where centipedes who where 2 meters long iirc.
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