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:

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[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Not even close, man. This thing has six pairs of front legs. Not three pairs with tiny pseudopod appendages in between. Ergo, it cannot be classified as an insect, so it is *not* of the Order Thysanura. The jumping bristletail is the wrong shape, color, and doesn't have nearly enough legs or appendages.

If you took a rare breed of New Zealand centipede, and removed all of the legs after the first six pairs and super-glued them to the end of the abdomen, you'd be getting closer.

Zoom In -- check out those legs!

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Here's a link to a larger photograph of the Atomic Mutant Bug.