fym thankfully? like it would've attacked you??? 😭 it wasn't venomous and was probably a detritivore. arthropleura was probably chill as hell and you're saying you're happy it isn't here anymore just because of it's appearance siiiigh
@Genus_Speciez@Juanyudocus One thing I love about the life sized arthropleura at the field museum in Chicago is that there’s a spot where the paint is worn away from people petting it. Plenty of people can still recognize that this was a living creature that once lived a happy life
The largest (15 inch) giant Amazonian centipedes are about as large as smaller Arthropleura species. If a flat-backed millipede grew as large, it would look almost exactly like a small arthropleura save for its lack of centipede jaws and eye stalks.
@YutyTyrant@Gulop1th3cuZ It's not like we're totally devoid of Big Buge. Some stick insects like the Chinese Giant Stick Insect and Highland Acrophylla get body lengths comparable to Griffenflies. Though it's true that we don't have anything Arthropleura sized
(Or Jaekelopterus sized for aquatic athros)
@Dalibor59851424 Tbf at least the Arthropleura doesn’t look far off from the real animal. Whereas the “Megarachne” is borderline fictitious unless we find a true giant Spider in the Carboniferous.