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Someone is bound to blame it on climate change. Zhao Li of the Insect Museum of West China  in  Chengdu has discovered an insect over two feet long on a mountain near Liuzhou City in  southern  China.

The new creature,   dubbed  Phryganistria chinensis Zhao measures 62.4 centimeters from head to tail, almost 6 cm longer than the  previous  record,   Phobaeticus chani, discovered in Malaysia in 2008.