Sep 26 2011

Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Beetle TRIUMPHANT!

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Organisms

by PZ Myers

(via National Geographic

(Also on Sb)

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JohnnieCanuck

26 September 2011 at 8:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Beetle! No punch-back!
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Ramel

26 September 2011 at 8:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I for one welcome our new insect overlords [/cliché]
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Glen Davidson

26 September 2011 at 8:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

If he’s triumphant, why’s he still stag?

I wonder if wearing my skeleton on the outside would work for me…

Glen Davidson
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'Tis Himself, OM

26 September 2011 at 8:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I wonder if wearing my skeleton on the outside would work for me…

Try it for a week and let us know how it works out.
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rob

26 September 2011 at 8:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

i imagine the beetle saying this:

“you should have seen the one that got away–it was *this* big!11!!1!”
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Anubis Bloodsin III

26 September 2011 at 9:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Critter is even doing the Matrix ‘bring it on’ finger twitch!

I think not my good bug!…

If average size was akin to rather stumpy pony…there would be a certain amount of grief before bedtime!
Not to mention a few rather graphic dreams when actually in bed.

Dodged a howitzer shell in evolution there methinks.
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feralboy12, der Ken-Puppe Sie außerhalb in 1983 verlassen

26 September 2011 at 9:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It appears to be some kind of beetle.

(Sorry. That’s what I always say when I see an unfamiliar species of beetle. Then I giggle and pretend I actually said something meaningful.)
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greame

26 September 2011 at 9:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Come at me, bro!
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Therrin

26 September 2011 at 9:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Awaiting insertion of sub sandwich.
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Mattir

26 September 2011 at 9:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Cover Your Tweedle…
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart OM, purveyor of candy and lies

26 September 2011 at 9:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

*shakes fist at greame!*

You beat me to it!
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Randomfactor

26 September 2011 at 10:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

One of god’s favorites…
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Mattand

26 September 2011 at 10:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

KHAAAANNNN!!!
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KG

26 September 2011 at 10:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

THat beetle appears to have one two many pairs of appendages. I thought the rule was three pairs of legs, one pair of antennae. What are the “antlers” at the top, anatomically?
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mythusmage

26 September 2011 at 10:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

KG,

Mandiblles.
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JHS

26 September 2011 at 10:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Totally stuck the landing.
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Gregory Greenwood

26 September 2011 at 11:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

‘I’ve got the (compound) eye of the beatle!’

Right there we have the theme music for the next ‘Rocky’ sequel.

We all know that Stallone will try it, even if he has to be wheeled into the ring in a bath chair…
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Giacomo Puccini

26 September 2011 at 11:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Vincero! Vincero! Vincero!
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Dhorvath, OM

26 September 2011 at 11:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You are such a tease! Go on, put your finger back, lets see if you are really that fast.
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Big Brother Ogvorbis: I am Watching

26 September 2011 at 11:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Cool. Stag (beetle) films!

——

Five! Five Dollar! Five Dollar Foot Looong!
(sorry, Girl works at Subway)

—–

Ladies and gentlemen (and others), this is how a beetle shrugs.
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KG

26 September 2011 at 11:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

mythusmage,
Thanks.
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Ms. Daisy Cutter

27 September 2011 at 12:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Why do I hear the strains of “Thus Spake Zarathustra”…?
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Markita Lynda, healthcare is a damn right.

27 September 2011 at 12:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Reminds me of an old science fiction story. The science team builds a device that can pull an object from the distant future. When they retrieve an object, it’s a small statue imbued with “Per ardua ad astra” heroism. The only trouble is…
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It’s a beetle.
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dfl42

27 September 2011 at 3:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@greame

DAMMIT! You beat me to it!
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christopherbooth

27 September 2011 at 3:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PZ: Is this to the same scale as your photo?!? …OMG….
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Anubis Bloodsin III

27 September 2011 at 8:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

#23

‘Reminds me of an old science fiction story’

There was another one that involved the resuscitation of an astronaut from a deep bio-stasis cryogenic hibernation pod…

When he opened his eyes a million years after closing them…he saw the shadows of the technicians reviving him on the wall…and he knew for sure which species dominated this future Earth.
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SJJ

27 September 2011 at 9:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Come on then if you think you are hard enough…
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paulwiele

27 September 2011 at 3:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The zerg are coming for us!
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greame

27 September 2011 at 3:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@11 Dr. Audley & 24 dfl42

lol Great minds think alike, and so do ours.
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johnm55

27 September 2011 at 4:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’ll be back
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Gregory

27 September 2011 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@Anubis Bloodsin III #26 – Flash fiction at its finest.
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paulburnett

28 September 2011 at 3:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

KG (#14) – This will clarify it – see http://www.wesleyfleming.com/gallery/stag-beetle.htm for a different perspective – and a really cool sculpture.
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mothra

28 September 2011 at 4:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

If you will observe closely Watson, note that this stag beetle is facing away and we are of no interest to it whatsoever.
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LRA

30 September 2011 at 2:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

LOL!

That picture brings a certain music to mind– from 2010: A Space Odyssey (II)…

Daaa… Daaa.. Daaaaaa…. DAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Bom bom bom bom bom bom…

Daaa…. Daaaa. Daaaaa. ***DAAAAA DAAAAAAAA***!!!!

Bom bom bom bom!

(you get the point!)