Behold the Atomic Mutant!!!!!

[featherynscale]

Some of you may remember the dread tale of the Atomic Mutant Insect - Horror From Another Dimension. As it turns out, this Thing was not the only Thing of its kind. They also have them in New Mexico, where kittenpants discovered a deceased specimen and photographed it for scientific purposes. So take a look (If You Dare!) and see if you know what the hell this thing is.

(Comments now fortified with Entomological Smackdown!)

Behold the Horror:

Comments

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Yes, but do we have any clue what these things actually are??? Just curious since they wander through my basement occasionally too.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No clue. agrnmn said it was a silverfish, but I have doubts, since every silverfish I've ever seen has had six legs or less - this thing's got twelve, even if you don't count the jacked-up leg looking things on the back, which kittenpants thought might be false legs.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

besides, I'm used to silverfish being much smaller.

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Silverfish look like this. The thing in your photo has too many legs to be a silverfish.


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