Headless Cockroaches: The Myth, The Legend, The YouTube Videos

We will probably never know who was the first person to behead a cockroach and watch in horror as its antennae and legs continued to twitch—not just for a few seconds of death throes but for...a while. This is gross, but also deeply fascinating. In the world of science, there is a substantial body of work that dispassionately examines the headless cockroach. But there is also of genre of kitchen-sink cockroach science that’s more about the flat-out ick factor.
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