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 exist. They may sometimes look like clumsy giant mosquitos, but are completely harmless to you and me.

Not to be confused with the daddy longlegs spiders which similarly have long legs and a relatively small body. Yet, the latter are arachnids (six legs) and don’t fly.

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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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