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baumpop t1_iy8tlwa wrote

Reply to comment by Swampwolf42 in Spiders were probably an absolute nightmare to early mammals. by psychoxxsurfer

I didn't say they were out of the water. The largest pre-spider on record was around 22 inches. Bout the size of my dog.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megarachne

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Swampwolf42 t1_iy8v0zj wrote

That is an aquatic arthropod. Not a spider. So again, No.

The very first sentence in the article you linked: “If the original identification as a spider had been correct, Megarachne would have been the largest known spider to have ever lived.” (Bolding mine)

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baumpop t1_iy8wtd7 wrote

Everything came from water.

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Swampwolf42 t1_iy8xdh8 wrote

Very good. You get a gold star. That doesn’t mean the largest prehistoric spider was 22 inches. By your “logic” the largest chicken was 70 feet long.

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Vladi_Sanovavich t1_iy9cn4l wrote

Mmhmm that's a whole lot of chicken. I wonder how many chicken nuggets we can make out of that?

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baumpop t1_iy8xgce wrote

I mean yeah.

Where'd the entomologist go?

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Trankalanka123 t1_iy9iapp wrote

Monkey and human share common ancestor. Monkey and human closely related. Monkey eat banana, monkey have opposable thumbs and hands. Human eat banana, human have opposable thumbs and hands. Monkey and human looks similar, but monkey and human not the same. Monkey not human, human not monkey.

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fatboi238 t1_iyb8vku wrote

not everything the sun didn't come from water

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