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[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The cockroach mice might be that they had only heard about or seen other slighly less terrible drawings of lobsters.

Edit: Oh wait, thats the ET thing.

The cockroach mice are little paisley looking ones.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That'd be really weird given how detailed the crab is, because the astacids – lobsters and crayfish – are globally distributed like crabs. The E.T. thing doesn't even have the right number of limbs, which is why I had to either invoke infraorder Anomura or assume a bilateral congenital limb defect.

It's actually like the product of trisexual reproduction between E.T., a lobster, and an arachnid.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Around here we call them cockamouse.