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Post by livingplanet3 on Feb 27, 2021 15:11:43 GMT -8
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Post by cherylobelle90 on Feb 27, 2021 20:54:25 GMT -8
Thankyou for your insight! All this info is very interesting and I'll research it to death as well i can with my millenial googling skills  but embarressed to draw my vivid memory of this creature, who knows, maybe it was an undersized six legged coyote from tales from the crypt - yikes! But I still strongly believe it could have been an oversized insect of some sort, was too bulky and 3 bodyparted for a stick bug (phasmid) though... |
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Post by cherylobelle90 on Feb 27, 2021 21:03:59 GMT -8
And I refuse to give up and say either god or aliens put it there to test my faith
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Post by Paul K on Feb 27, 2021 21:13:23 GMT -8
And I refuse to give up and say either god or aliens put it there to test my faith Hey, who knows, maybe one or the other!? |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 27, 2021 22:37:08 GMT -8
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 27, 2021 23:08:40 GMT -8
A couple of things that need to be taken into consideration in this matter
are physics and an efficient respiration system.
Cherylobelle90, insects are invertebrates. Their skeleton is an (exoskeleton)-- not an
(endoskeleton) like vertebrate creatures (who have a backbone or "spine" as we know it).
This exoskeleton puts a limit on an insects size limitations and movements.
Think of an exoskeleton as a suit of armor with nothing but, soft insides. An endoskeleton
is very much stronger as it supports all that which "attaches' to it -- muscle, tendons, and
ligaments which altogether allow movement, speed, and "lift" unseen in invertebrate creatures.
Furthermore, insects possess a very simple respiratory system which likewise severely limits
their size limitations. Anything bigger than our modern day Insecta living (at this point in time)
would require a set of lungs to further evolve as (land based) creatures.
So, in short the very physics of an insects build along with its rudimentary respiratory
system prevents them from becoming anything more than what we now have.
As Paul K mentioned, stick insects are our "longest" insects with the largest species
measuring in at 15-16 numeric inches. However, even at that length they are VERY lightly
built with stilt-like legs, long/thin bodies, and wings for "gliding" from one location
to another when necessary.
Our largest beetle species only reach to 6 1/2 inches in (body) length -- without adding
in any additional length for jaws (Macrodontia cervicornis) or horns (Dynastes hercules).
Our largest Moths and Butterflies have proportionately small bodies compared to their
large wings which afford them "lift" in just moving their bodies up and around !
Finally, the largest known species of ant is Dinoponera grandis (now gigantea) from Brazil.
They measure about 1.6 inches, have small colonies, and are only occasionally encountered
(as compared with most other ants).
I am sorry but, as a Zoology major in college and an Entomologist you did NOT see any living
insect as you describe it. And honestly, adding in that it had some (I'll call them) saucer-shaped
reddish eyes only makes this story more preposterous !
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 27, 2021 23:28:59 GMT -8
I think someone here has seen an "Outer Limits" episode called
"The Zanti Misfits" and has incorporated that alien ant episode
into their formative childhood years/experiences...
It is however, one of the better Outer Limits episodes.
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Post by 58chevy on Feb 28, 2021 8:10:15 GMT -8
Giant ants have been featured in several sci-fi movies. Maybe you have memories of "Them":
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Post by livingplanet3 on Feb 28, 2021 10:43:08 GMT -8
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 28, 2021 14:01:28 GMT -8
You guys.
I think " Giant Ant Encounter" would be a great theme park. Remember- It's my idea.
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Post by livingplanet3 on Feb 28, 2021 14:36:31 GMT -8
You guys. I think " Giant Ant Encounter" would be a great theme park. Remember- It's my idea. What about a "Scorpion Petting Zoo", or "Tarantula Ranch"? Those would be innovative ways of exposing urban kids to nature.  |
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 28, 2021 19:34:01 GMT -8
Actually, there used to be a gift shop on HWY 101 here in Oregon called Tarantula Ranch, although it went out of business, the name has a ring to
it, I still have the copy of instructions about how to save a spider web from there.
I've used it to make a couple clocks using orb weaver webs.
But Giant Ant Encounter, sounds a lot like the Giant Ark, a person could get a lot of free advertising, unless we got sued by Noah.
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Post by bandrow on Feb 28, 2021 21:25:47 GMT -8
You guys. I think " Giant Ant Encounter" would be a great theme park. Remember- It's my idea. What about a "Scorpion Petting Zoo", or "Tarantula Ranch"? Those would be innovative ways of exposing urban kids to nature. I vote for "Tarantula Ranch" - name just rolls off the tongue! Pure marketing genius!! And instead of funnel cakes - funnel webs, of course... Cheers! Bandrow |
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but embarressed to draw my vivid memory of this creature, who knows, maybe it was an undersized six legged coyote from tales from the crypt - yikes! But I still strongly believe it could have been an oversized insect of some sort, was too bulky and 3 bodyparted for a stick bug (phasmid) though...
