His “The Final Architecture” series also has a lot of non-humanoid aliens in it. Somewhat different in tone than the Children books but also super enjoyable!

The Prador in Neal Asher’s “Polity” books are literally giant spacefaring crabs. And they are not very nice people.

oh my god I feel so seen

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I had always heard this but recently I saw a video by Real Science (i think) on youtube/nebula that was discussing the debate about this topic. I can link the youtube video if you would like.

That’s because everyone who has been close enough to see the venom-missile-shooting tenrec hasnt lived to talk about it (there’s a tenrec for every occasion)

WOT for the win!

Dude so good

Personal schadenfreude, I dig it.

Many species of poison dart frogs derive their toxic compounds from ingesting mites! Even crazier, some molluscs like the Blue Angel sea slug (glaucus atlanticus) can ingest and weaponize the nematocysts from siphonophores like the Portuguese Man O’ War. Nature be crazy

Look around you! Just look around you!

🤓uhm ackhtually centipedes are not insects but are members of a different group of arthropods called Myriapods, along with everyone’s favorite detritivores the millipedes

edit for additional infodumping: their venom injecting apparatuses are modified legs called forcipules or toxicognaths, and they are the only known animal with such features.

Lmao that last one isnt as less-threatening as you would think it would be, still pretty spooky

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This person opilionates 👌

Yep! “Daddy long legs” is a widely applied colloquial term for harvestman, or opiliones. Though I’m sure some spider species are also called that by some people.

Oh damn, I didnt know that. Thanks!

🐰 👕 🕷️ edit: ah it looked better vertically

I believe that that’s a harvestman actually. It is an arachnid but not a spider. They are suuuper ancient. The giveaway is that there isnt a visually distinguishable division between the prosoma (head region) and opisthosoma (back region) as there is in the spiders and other arachnids like the solifuges.

Excellent pic and excellent username. The tooooth!