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[Jackpot]

Like, why would you need that many claws on one creature?

 

[strafer]

Ellie was right, Scorpions are pretty creepy.

 

[daviyoung]

Is this theory Ridley Scott approved?

 

[Dirtyshubb]

Nature sure is a crazy thing and often outshines anything we can imagine.

 

[horkrux]

I could stare at this all day

 

[Hyun Sai]

Is this theory Ridley Scott approved?

I don't know, Ridley knows something about Xenomorphs these days ?

 

[ponpo]

What an non-aesthetic looking thing.

 

[Moff]

Like, why would you need that many claws on one creature?

because they're cute. stop claw shaming.

 

[theBmZ]

I didn't realize this was a gif. It took forever to load, and when it started to move it scared the fuck out of me. Lol.

 

[daviyoung]

I don't know, Ridley knows something about Xenomorphs these days ?

He knows everything about everything

 

[CaviarMeths]

 

[Coreda]

Mildly erotic

 

[h1nch]

It would have been much better if that Scorpion was hit with a blowtorch at the end.

 

[Asbel]

You mean scorpions are ancestors of xenomorphs..

 

[lastplayed]

Aww it's grooming just like a kitty.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Scorpio.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Are you saying that David invented scorpions?

 

[HotHamBoy]

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Ridley Scott is furiously rewriting the alien lore right now, because people care so much about it and fuck what was said in previous movies

 

[CharmingCharlie]

Yeahhhhhhhh I am gonna go with the safe option and choose the "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"

 

[Kebiinu]

And to think, a good friend of mine used to tell me about how he'd find scorpions in his vacation house, out in Puerto Rico. Let's all be grateful we're giants in comparison.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Is this the first time you have seen a scorpion?

 

[Glass Rebel]

Well done, Ridley Scott is gonna read this and we're gonna get 3 more Alien prequels.

 

[Ithil]

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Don't people eat them like snacks?

 

[zeemumu]

A lot of creatures like that have a pair of primary claws to catch and kill and a pair of secondary claws to shovel the food in

 

[shadow_shogun]

 

[h1nch]

And to think, a good friend of mine used to tell me about how he'd find scorpions in his vacation house, out in Puerto Rico. Let's all be grateful we're giants in comparison.

A friend of mine bought a house outside the city on several acres, and for the first month of living there he'd go out in his back yard every night with a black light hunting for scorpions (in case anyone wasn't aware, they glow under a black light...yeah)

He killed like 40+ the first month. Apparently he doesn't find them as much anymore. Must have thinned out the population. Good for him.

 

[Amagon]

Like, why would you need that many claws on one creature?

It's not a clown car lady.

 

[HariKari]

Yeahhhhhhhh I am gonna go with the safe option and choose the "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"

They are extremely hardy. Some types can be a royal pain in the ass to kill.

 

[nOoblet16]

Don't people eat them like snacks?

The Rock tried it

 

[Machine]

They used to be a lot larger. Thank god they've become smaller as time passed.

 

[Jaeger]

Wonderful animals.

 

[StayDead]

They made the villager insane and now I know why.

 

[Oberon]

These is the kind of designs where I wonder "How did it come to this? What do these fellow's ancestors look like?"

 

[AngryMoth]

Moray eels and kind of like xenomorphs in that they have a second mouth inside their throat that comes out to drag it's prey down.

Edit: didn't expect to be beaten on this haha

 

[Cro-Magnon]

Those little mouth-parts are called chelicerae and are the name-defining characteristics of the clade Chelicerata which includes all of the arachnids, horseshoe crabs and pantopodes.

In scorpions they have the appearance of pincers but are still homologues to the hollow fangs through which spiders inject their venom.

 

[Disorientator]

Expected something completely different...

 

[Astral Dog]

I keep watching but i don't wanna D:

Nature sure is a crazy thing and often outshines anything we can imagine.

But you ARE nature 😋

 

[The Artisan]

fuck them.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I took a sec for the gif to load so at first I was like "meh, seen worse"

...then it moved.


Call the Avengers!

 

[Basoes]

So what did sub-zero evolve from?

this?

 

[Kayhan]

Like, why would you need that many claws on one creature?

To better pinch you of course.

 

[kmfdmpig]

These is the kind of designs where I wonder "How did it come to this? What do these fellow's ancestors look like?"

I never knew eels had that. Very good design.

 

[elrechazado]

The next step is clearly the giant scorpion of death https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BVTClpC1jIY

 

[KDR_11k]

Like, why would you need that many claws on one creature?

Dunno but horseshoe crabs have a tiny claw on every leg.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Is this theory Ridley Scott approved?

Those are are mandibles, so technically it would be Jim Cameron approved since he's the one who suggested to Stan Winston that the Predator have mandibles on his face.

 

[Clawww]

These is the kind of designs where I wonder "How did it come to this? What do these fellow's ancestors look like?"

it kinda makes sense, like, they don't have hands, so the outer jaw is for the actual biting and latching (of something alive), and then they gotta have another set to actually chew and shit obviously

in case you were wondering, I'm definitely not a biologist

 

[Gunblade47]

Almost as cute as a sun spider:

 

[Tookay]

Well done, Ridley Scott is gonna read this and we're gonna get 3 more Alien prequels.

And we still won't know how the space jockey got to where he is.