Once in a while, for few rational reasons, I’d choose a random animal and model a 3D-version of it. Rarely would the digital fabricant leave the 3D-software, but in this case, it did.

This one belongs to the animal family Tipulidae, crane flies or daddy longlegs as they’re mostly known as, are some of the oldest known insects that still fly around. Crane flies may sometimes look like clumsy giant mosquitos, but they’re completely harmless to you and me.

Also not to be confused with the daddy longlegs spiders, crane flies similarly have long legs and a disproportionately small body. Yet, the former are arachnids (eight legs) and don’t fly.

Happily, I also found great usage for this 3D-creation in the video above!

Music licensed from audiojungle.net.

References:

Lukashevich, E. D., & Ribeiro, G. C., 2018. Mesozoic fossils and the phylogeny of Tipulomorpha (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(8), p. 635–652. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2018.1448899

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