Wandering Adventure Party

@ShaulaEvans The inflated coremata of the male Baphomet moth make it look like an alien.

(I recommend doing a separate image search to see ones that are far more impressive than the photo included in the Wikipedia article)

Creatonotos gangis - Wikipedia

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@ShaulaEvans Gynandropmorphism, though very rare, is a real-world and highly visible example of animals being both a 'boy and a girl' at the same time. It is something observed in Lepidoptera and other bugs, in addition to many other animals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorphism

@ShaulaEvans Again, not strictly a bug but, hell, they're not only stunning to look at but male peacock spiders also dance.

More peacock spiders from Jurgen Otto: https://flickr.com/people/59431731@N05/

@ShaulaEvans (Strictly speaking, not a bug but the colloquial use of the word covers it)

@ShaulaEvans Harvestmen* (Order: Opiliones) is a type of arachnid that has been around for more than 400 million years and they are one of the oldest known land-based arthropods that are still extant today.

(*To prevent or add to the confusion: in the US they are called daddy long legs, which is what we call crane flies in the Tipula genus here in the UK)

This paper includes images of the fossil of one that is 305Myr old: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1458

@isaackuo @cstross @Richard_Littler Maybe not quite so profitable but Graham Hancock has still made a lot of money and been given a highish profile perpetuating the same racist pseudoscience in the past few decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock

@cstross @datarama @Richard_Littler See also Great Zimbabwe (not mentioned in the article but aliens were also postulated as the origin at one point as well; anything and anyone so long as it wasn't black people):

Great Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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