.....I thought that spidertaur would get me better visual inspiration results on Google images than arachne but instead it got me a really unnecessary amount of Ed Edd and Eddy fanart
does anyone know why this is
there's art of girl OCs with one of the main characters
there's art of two of the mains smooching
I searched spidertaur
I don't understand
all I wanted was for someone else to work out how mammalian and arthropod....ic vascular systems can interact
that's all
(I'm stuck on that one myself. I like to not use magic as the response wherever possible)
oh my gosh
well
/cracks knuckles
at that size, an arthropod's exoskeleton is awfully heavy
and they don't have veins. or blood, for that matter.
they have haemolymph which is just pumped all over the body without veins.
so
if I were going to design a spidertaur/drider creature from the ground up
1. internal and external skeleton. The one to provide structure at a large size, the other to protect
circulatory system more mammal-like than spider-like.
You got that lovely human heart in the torso, right. May as well make use of it.
I mean. it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a creature to have two separate types of circulatory systems.
haemolymph makes use of haemocyanin rather than haemoglobin. both is unlikely.
you could go with a red iron-based blood or a bluish copper-based blood
but I'd still stick with veins and superior mammal heart, for a big creature
re: skeleton
turtles
turtles have the whole endo-and-exoskeleton thing going on
we're veering far away from arthropod I'm afraid but this is how I would do it
(shut up Jess /removes self)
aha 
Try drider
zerothlaw: no I was admittedly hoping for you. I was looking at all the haemolymph stuff like. I feel like this can't work this big
jadefishes: ooh thank you
gazzafizza: whoa thank you, that's very useful
... I like the idea that I'm known for stupid fantasy biology.
you're known for taking science seriously even when it's dumb fantasy stuff
which I try to do but I don't have the science background
but heck like. I'm p sure the spiders in dragon age leave a skeleton behind when they dissolve after battle so idk why the extra support thing didn't occur to me
there were times in our history where bugs did get very big, mind you
I think there was a prehistoric millipede that was the size of a car
but the oxygen levels in the environment were a lot higher, then.
and the atmosphere was thicker in general
the carboniferous period was... sort of crazy
found it
but yeah, bring a lot of these creatures into a modern atmosphere, and well. They wouldn't do so hot.
To be fair, I don't think we'd do so well in the carboniferous period either
cooool
although, re: dragon age
dragon age is a setting where magic is everywhere and it's entirely plausible for an organism to use magic as part of its biology
I still stand by my theory that lyrium uses a process akin to photosynthesis but using magic instead of light
dragons are of animal intelligence but use a form of magical mind control
but yeah. magical handwaving is not always the answer
oh absolutely, but it's looking at magic like its own scientific force
I'm all about that
yes totally