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"Made is Australia".
Natch.
Posted by: bonmot | August 28, 2009 at 09:51 AM
"Euwwww yuk, a cockie" about sums it up for me.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 28, 2009 at 09:52 AM
"And before you go 'Ewwww yuck, a cockie'", you'd better check with Siouxie.
Posted by: bonmot | August 28, 2009 at 09:52 AM
"Ewwww yuck, a cockie"
Thankfully, my wife got over that.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | August 28, 2009 at 09:52 AM
Worst.
Snack food.
Ever.
Posted by: bonmot | August 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM
I think we can take care of that ewwwwy yucky cockie with this guy.
Posted by: oneblankspace | August 28, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Cockroach - Australian for bear.
Posted by: MartiniShark | August 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Seen one cockie...seen 'em all...
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM
One more reason NOT to live down under!
Posted by: dolphan72 | August 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM
That was disappointing. I was expecting it to weigh four or five pounds, the way they hyped it. 35g is only an ounce and a quarter.
Not that it wouldn't make a really disgusting mess if you stomped it.
Posted by: Will | August 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM
"Australia's giants give birth to live young, look after them in a burrow, make "great pets" and dine on leaves. "
"Leaves" of course is an obscure Australian slang for "children"
Posted by: Will | August 28, 2009 at 01:13 PM
People pay money for these things? No thank you.
Posted by: nursecindy | August 28, 2009 at 01:43 PM
I had a spider that could have eaten one of those, thank god.
Posted by: Steve | August 28, 2009 at 01:47 PM
/me hands these so-called "scientists" a Goliath Beetle
(Look it up on Wikipedia. Far larger than this thing.)
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Posted by: Chris | August 28, 2009 at 05:53 PM
Once you get into the article it says "Contender for the title of worlds heaviest insect" and the real headline says it MAY be the worlds heaviest insect. But of course it's wrong.
The Goliath beetle is 3.5 oz in the larval stage and half that as an adult. That's comparable to this, but still heavier, just not by such a huge margin.
Talk about getting my hopes up... Now I need another candidate for my mutation experiments....
Posted by: Will | August 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM
That was supposed to be
this
guy
Posted by: oneblankspace | August 29, 2009 at 08:22 PM