Kingdom of the Spiders
nev
nev
nev@bananachips.club

There are two main lineages of spiders:

Araneomorphae (typical or "true" spiders)β€”wolf spiders, jumping spiders, orbweavers, etc., basically every spider you've ever heard of. Lots of evolutionary innovations like capture webs, etc.

Mygalomorphaeβ€”tarantulas, trapdoor spiders, and other chunky long-lived, often big spiders. Often called "primitive" because they more closely resemble the ancestors of all spiders.

(There's also the third lineage, Liphistiidae, a small and odd group, which resemble spider ancestors even more.)

#Monsterdon

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

"She was into Uncle Remus, I wasn't"

There are SO many "wtf?!" lines in this movie but so far this one is absolutely winning

#Monsterdon

nev
nev
nev@bananachips.club

"Red corpuscles are almost non-existent," she says, yet we know that the monsters in this movie are tarantulas and the only spiders with haemolytic venom are Sicariidβ€”*is immediately booed out of room*

#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Launching my thread for ! Arachnophobes, beware! Shatnerphobes also beware!

Tragically my internet died while I started watching this movie, so I shall start by posting a backlog of posts, hash tag mwahahahaha

Srol
Srol
srol@mellified.men

Ah yes, everyone knows spiders are so easily stopped by doors. Implacable barriers no arachnid has ever thwarted. #Monsterdon

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LK_877

Dogs and cows do a lot of the heavy lifting in building up the suspense in these movies.