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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Aremel 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That guy on the left being the size of a crocodile is a terrifying thought.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it makes it any better, it would be a sort of small crocodile, at "only" 8 feet (2.6 meters ish ish) long.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That made it worse, I didn't knew crocodiles were that big

[–] 9bananas 4 points 4 months ago

crocodiles actually get much bigger than that...think record is somewhere about 7m and about 1.1 metric tonnes!

[–] Num10ck 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the chitin shell would made a sweet roofing material

[–] Dkarma 3 points 4 months ago

Nord

[–] Dkarma 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah it really puts into perspective the massive predators at the time who ate these things. No wonder they could get so big.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

spooder ist fren

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Crab in disguise 🦀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What is it about spiders, especially black shiny ones, that brings out the ICK factor and the OOG factor. I'd rather deal with the guy on the left, and I really don't want to do that at all. There's something about radial symmetry - having lots of legs in a radial pattern that is somehow frightening to our brains, I think. Remember the fence around the forbidden lands in Planet of the Apes? It looked like big spiders to me and scared me as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

... the Arthropods! (cue laughter)