anyway sorry to derail the thread Tea, here's something badass and terrifying - a frog-eating spider
ill see your beyonce and raise you a rihanna:
Car sized praying mantises. Cat sized ants. Wasps and bees the size of big electrical appliances.
That's some dystopian shit right there. Positively swampy. Triassic even.
One of my high school maths teachers once told me that bug's can't get bigger due to their exoskeletons, they can't support as much weight as internal skeletons when scaled up or something. Thank goodness.
It's more to do with oxygen diffusing into the interior of the arthropod. Gigantic insects and arachnids only flourished when oxygen levels were higher in prehistory.
Pft, frogs.
I don't normally mind insects or spiders but that thing gives me the creeps.
still no match for beyonce though, i'd wager
What if Beyonce and the spider bred?
Would more legs mean more arses?