Comments on: What Is This?

By: Dr Kaco

Dr Kaco — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:47:07 +0000

Nice piece to put up since the movie “THE THING” is coming out soon! Thanks!

By: Joxman

Joxman — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:28:08 +0000

@ kittilia

It is not stop motion. The “head” is clearly fluid and not jerky. I think our best answer at this time is the Hag Moth Larva, but even this is just a very close approximation. I’m not certain of the diversity of appearance, but I think it is our Mystery Animal It seems it only took us a day to identify. We Cryptomundians are AWESOME

(notice how I also claimed responsibility for identifying it, even though grendel_25 was the first to offer evidence)

…. NEXT

By: Duffy2323

Duffy2323 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:40:39 +0000

I am very convinced that it is a Hag Moth Larva (Phobetron Pithecium). I translated the Chinese to get any clues but found nothing helpful. The translation is something along the lines of “Unknown organism found abroad, Probably caused by some sort of mutation”. It definitely moves like a caterpillar and also has the appendages just like a Hag Moth Larva but I cannot find any species of Hag Moth in Asia, please correct me if I’m wrong.

By: kittalia

kittalia — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:26:48 +0000

It doesn’t move like it’s alive. It looked like a dead, shriveled bat in a stop motion

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:31:54 +0000

Maybe a dried up sea hare? Or caterpillar.

By: lordoftheonionrings

lordoftheonionrings — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:28:56 +0000

My guess is a bat that flew into a bug zapper. I was thinking caterpillar at first by it’s movements so I can see where people are coming from with that one.

By: Cryptoz

Cryptoz — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:53:36 +0000

i thought when first looking at it, it was the size of a dog, but its WAY smaller! See that green thing it’s on? I thought it was a surfboard at first, but thats a peace of grass. Its definately some sort of caterpillar. Maybe its a known species, ill look it up.

By: Joxman

Joxman — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:16:04 +0000

Well it moves like a larva of some sort. I can see how some people perceive a bat, but it appears to be either inherent camouflage or someone placed some dried foliage on a caterpillar.

I’m surprised us Cryptomundians haven’t identified it yet. One thing I know is that I have not seen anything like it before

By: tampasteve

tampasteve — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:50 +0000

Hapa:
Hard to say, from the scale of things it could be huge. In fact I think that is a green steel girder that it is crawling around on.

J/K of course looks like a deformed/mutilated bat or insect.

By: punydevil

punydevil — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:19:42 +0000

Hag moth.