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#Arachnida

3 matchups tagged Arachnida.

A marabou stork standing with hunched shoulders, bald pink head, and a long dangling throat pouch, looking like it is about to read you a eulogy.

A pale, armored giant isopod on the dark Gulf of Mexico sea floor, its overlapping plated body and many legs making it look like an alien parking clamp.

A thorny devil lizard on red desert ground, its whole body covered in conical spikes, with a large spiny knob behind its head.

A large brown goliath birdeater tarantula specimen shown from above, its thick hairy legs spread across nearly the width of a dinner plate.

Marabou Stork vs Giant Isopod vs Thorny Devil vs Goliath Birdeater: An Undertaker Bird That Pees on Its Own Legs, a Deep-Sea Roly-Poly That Skipped Food for 5 Years, a Lizard That Drinks Through Its Skin, and a Dinner-Plate Spider That Hisses

A bird that cools off by defecating on itself, a crustacean the size of a football that fasted longer than most gym memberships, a desert lizard that turns rain into a beverage, and a spider you can hear from across the room. One crown, four bad decisions by evolution.

17 weeks ago · 6 min

A shaggy black binturong with a long tail resting on a wooden platform

A dark giant vinegaroon with pincer-like pedipalps and a long thin whip tail on soil

Historical scientific illustration of the pelican eel with an enormous mouth and long whip tail

A mata mata turtle with a knobby leaf-like shell and a broad flat triangular head underwater

Binturong vs Vinegaroon vs Pelican Eel vs Mata Mata Turtle: A Bearcat That Smells Like Movie Popcorn, an Arachnid That Sprays Vinegar From Its Butt, an Eel That Is 90 Percent Mouth, and a Turtle Pretending to Be Wet Garbage

One mammal, one arachnid, one fish, one reptile, zero good decisions. Four wildly unrelated animals enter, and I judge them on how cool, weird, and gross they are.

17 weeks ago · 6 min

An ocean sunfish (Mola mola) swimming, showing its tall fins and truncated body

A male peacock spider displaying its colorful iridescent abdomen

Ocean Sunfish vs Peacock Spider: The Biggest Doofus in the Sea Meets a 5mm Disco Ball

A two-ton fish that looks like a head that gave up, versus a spider the size of a grain of rice that dances for its life. Scale is meaningless here.

19 weeks ago · 4 min

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