How Big Can Spiders Grow?

[@admiralcat3809]

I find it really amazing and ironic that the largest spider isn't some monstrous prehistoric beast that went extinct some millions of years ago, but it's just our big ol' tarantula chilling in the present day.

[@chazaqiel2319]

Same energy as the Blue Whale being, as far as we know, the largest animal to have ever existed. Makes it feel more special to be living right now, don't you think?

[@BasicNatural69]

​@@chazaqiel2319except for yo mo- yeah it really does

[@helio-r4u]

Me when I try searching Giant Squid, then finding out about Colossal squids, and then assuming and trying to search up about “Greater Squid” or “Biggest Squid species” -kraken- because I only assumed something like so would exist a long time ago

[@notadaytrader]

@@chazaqiel2319largest as in heaviest. Not largest as in length. Amphicoelias fragillimus may have been up to 190 feet long, but we may never know. At least with the blue whale, you KNOW they can get upwards of a 100ft in length, and they are by far the heaviest that I’ve heard of.

[@KenanLaudat-tp3bp]

Iirc, theres actually an ancient giant spider over a foot large, around 2 I think. I forget the species name but I'd also bet it was a monstrous predator either

[@usernotfound40495]

Eight legged freaks is a certified classic.

[@KNGDDDE]

So underrated. Gotta love cheesy b listers lol

[@The_New_IKB]

Preach my friend!

[@Ujuani68]

I love the ostrich scene!😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

[@MrGul]

As is Arachnophobia.

[@usernotfound40495]

@@MrGul also Ice Spiders was pretty good 😅

[@blakemagnus6633]

Not only is the video interesting, but the narration isn't some awful AI voice. Thank you for that!

[@LukeEvzy]

I second that, god those AI voices really ruin the video I feel.

[@andyhug90]

​@@LukeEvzydepends on the content. If the creator doesnt speak english well its fair, many people cant stand accents.

[@brettbarager9101]

​@@andyhug90 if the creator wants it in English they should hire an English speaking person.

[@squidgy6930]

Totally agree I switch off really fast as soon as I hear AI

[@admiralcat3809]

AI generated content is almost always surface level information of things with nothing new or just outright misinformation.

[@bettybunbun9664]

Everyone gangsta until the arthropods evolve a circulatory system.

[@seppesch3701]

then you break out the steel bat. Minerals 1 Arthropods 0

[@JoaoPedro-ed5do]

​@@seppesch3701 nah spider can be insanely fast, so a huge spider would web you before you even think about fighting it

[@hopeandpiece]

"I bet several of you have never seen scorpions in the wild" * laughs in way too far north *

[@qwopiretyu]

Buddy, I got some awful news about climate change and habitable range

[@AKStovall]

@@qwopiretyu I've lived in numerous places that are too far north for scorpions. Michigan, Minnesota, Alaska, Maine, Hokkaido Japan. I've also lived in places where they're plentiful. Climate change hasn't happened to the point where their habitable range has moved so far north. they can't handle temperatures below 50F very well, and when half the year is below that, they just won't last.

[@Texan_christian1132]

Actually in some parts of Texas spiders are kinda rare and scorpions are less common to but they can be found pretty well

[@kwyatt261]

​@@qwopiretyu I'm in northern Michigan. Seen some big spiders, but no scorpions. I'll bet you my life savings they won't be here in my lifetime

[@Js16108]

I saw 1 in East Tennessee about 20 years ago

[@Wavyintelguy]

This thumbnail is pure nightmare fuel

[@BuffaloSentry]

And I love it

[@prophet3204]

50s giant creature features were and are some of the best stuff to come out of Hollywood

[@FionavanDahl]

it's from The Giant Spider Invasion, the MST3K episode mocking it is free on KZbin

[@LoganE01]

How do you know that it isn't friendly and protective?

[@Wavyintelguy]

Yknow, im not quite sure. I think it's the giant mandables for me?

[@Mercer526]

0:35 Eight Legged Freaks is probably the best giant spider movie. It knows it's based on a corny trope, so it doesn't lean into the horror aspect as much, if at all. It doesn't take itself seriously, and the spiders themselves lean more towards being more comical than scary since the visuals themselves already have scary covered. It's definitely worth the watch.

[@victorcadavid5761]

You just said which one was the best and then proceed to give us a full detailed list of reasons why one should stay away from it.

[@Mercer526]

@victorcadavid5761 it truly is. Any giant spider movie that tries to take itself seriously is pretty bad. Watch it and then come back and say it's not a well done movie.

[@SpaceCat712News]

@@Mercer526 Have U seen *July 12 Johnny Dark Speak* the *GIANT SPIDER MOVIE* meow meow ...? Someone took it seriously enough he got on a $$$ famous TV show $$$ to talk about how the *GIANT SPIDERS* are going 2 kill everyone soon *July 12* meow meow muahahaha imagine man at legs PIKMIN 2 mrow meow yeah no one stands a chance >:33

[@Ujuani68]

I love, when the smoking grandma is being whirled around, the ostrich scene and, of course, the very first scene with spider and the cat, making dents/shapes in the ceiling!😂🎉 That movie is a blast.

[@lkeke35]

Yeah, its one of my top favorites!

[@garythefishable]

I tend to find that the coolest spiders are usually the smaller ones anyway. Jumpers, spitters and web casters will always fascinate me far more than any giant tarantula ever will.

[@2Scarhand]

What's bothered me about the old oxygen argument recently is the existence of coconut crabs. Modern terrestrial arthropods with a leg-span of up to 3 feet, almost a perfect match for the prehistoric arthropods. They have a different respiratory system, sure, with essentially "air gills" near their tail, but to say modern oxygen levels literally can't support large arthropods is clearly false. At the very least, arthropods of that size can clearly evolve a suitable respiratory system. And more importantly, the crabs prove your latter hypothesis. The live predominantly on islands where most other terrestrial role are filled by birds and small lizards that aren't a threat to them. And they see increased predation on islands with humans and feral animals. The lack of competition likely played a much larger role for early terrestrial arthropods than the higher oxygen levels.

[@MSTRCMDR]

same here - glad to know better now

[@1TakoyakiStore]

I was going to essentially say the same thing. Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking this.

[@PapaDalbec]

Perhaps it has something to do with the significantly higher CO2 levels?

[@bones214]

I think it’s probably a bit of both a lack of competition and an abundance of oxygen, overall just an ideal condition for land dwelling arthropods to thrive in. Just a thought.

[@bendavid2320]

I have watched and read a bunch or stuff about this. Bc I wanted there to be 3ft tarantulas in the past bc that’s cool af. But literally every thing I watch or read said that spider where not ever big bc of the book lungs. I wouldn’t debate it either way, bc I’m not a scientist but it’s a lot of people all saying the same thing.

[@azynkron]

I can't really express how happy I am to be living in Ireland in 2025. The worst things we have here are mosquitos and ants.

[@johngobble]

Yeah and not to long ago you had like….a single snake

[@spendthriftmcduck4325]

Those midges will eat you alive in the summer.

[@savagesarethebest7251]

I am sorry for the climate change, you will soon find that other species can survive the winter and will make your island it's home. I for one can't believe that we have a raccoon problem here in Sweden for example.. 🙄

[@karzter9411]

Amd here I am on the opposite spectrum. I live in Poland and I'm sad we don't have any big spider spieces.

[@JustTryingToYoutube]

Yup I’m in Canada, couldn’t imagine seeing some of those spiders or insects in my house 😂

[@plagueman956]

good video man surprised youre not a big creator, liked and commented for the algorithm 👍

[@charliebrewis1158]

Production value is actually really good for such a small channel. Keep up the good work!

[@lochux9741]

the giant enemy spider

[@falkkiwiben]

This has bugged (sorry) me for such a long time. Thank you algoryhtm for getting me here

[@rpmc537]

One more video before bed… The video:

[@themetalfox3725]

😂

[@idkrandomusername69]

Nightmare fuel

[@TD-Dragon420]

This is so rare for spiders because they’re very soft - they don’t have hard shells so they very easily decay,” Selden said. “It has to be a very special situation where they were washed into a body of water. Normally, they’d float.

[@rickybryan1759]

Arachniphobia with John Goodman is a blast

[@thardump859]

It's just nothing but anti spider propaganda.

[@robinharwood5044]

He was channeling John Wayne!

[@CaveDog420]

I can confirm that the film "BIG ASS SPIDER!" is a cinematic masterpiece

[@debbie6353]

Live in a house with thousands of spiders, including redback and trapdoor, who come inside to hunt, never been bitten

[@Texan_christian1132]

Actually in some parts of Texas spiders are kinda rare and scorpions are less common to but they can be found pretty well

[@ticket2space]

​@@Texan_christian1132you and your profile are absolutely insufferable man. Learn some social skills

[@Celatra]

Here's a fun fact: spiders today across the board are larger than ever. Record breaking sizes for multiple species have been found just in the last 20 years And ive personally seen the increase in spider size... the good ol Araneus Diadematus is said to be around 1cm in body length and about 2 with legs... but do you know how many I've seen that are literally TWICE their official listed size? Sometimes even 2.5x the size... That's not to mention giant jumping spiders that are multiple INCHES in size

[@maxonite]

As an arachnophobe, im terrified 😂 they will take over!!

[@Celatra]

@maxonite they won't. Insects have in general aswell as arthropods gotten bigger. Spiders are symbiotic with other animals because they help em keep parasitic insects away by eating them

[@holschermarc]

I love it that u bring up how our knowledge is incomplete and our understanding of scientific facts changes all the time. TO many people see study X and take it as facts

[@phatnom_5319]

stuck in the bathroom rn, 3 grown huntsman spiders on the door pull up bruh. they jumpin me.

[@ezybro2K]

ah they won’t hurt ya great pest control mate🇦🇺

[@ticket2space]

You know you can get a shotgun for like 300 bucks right

[@local72-television82]

As far as I’m aware, the largest spider in the world is a giant huntsman with a leg span of 30cm, which lives in deep caves.

[@bodan1196]

As someone not particularly comfortable with spiders, I'm glad that I live in Sweden, which has a lot of spiders... small spiders, none of which to be worried about biting you. The largest spider I have seen, and relocated from my parents living room into the garden, had a leg span comparable to the palm of my hand. No fingers, just the palm. 7cm? If allowed, I would venture a guess that I that time encountered an Eratigena atrica.

[@mumsie8578]

I think that tarantula is considered the biggest because of its weight as well , pretty sure it's heavier than that huntsman

[@local72-television82]

@@mumsie8578 They does make sense, in terms of weight, the Tarantula or the Goliath bird eater is probably the heaviest.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Tarantulas are much heavier

[@jeffcoat1959]

​@@mumsie8578depends on the species of tarantula. Some of them are not all that large. The biggest ones, such as t.blondi or l.parahybana, would definitely outweigh a giant huntsman. But the giant huntsman still has the largest legspan.

[@minerran]

In theory, the biggest a spider could probably get would be the size of a coconut crab, the biggest land arthropod. They can be 3 feet across (legspan) and weigh 9 pounds. However, that would not work for a spider because its a predator and must move fast. Coconut crabs move slowly on land.

[@ritalawson7020]

There are big ones down under barking spiders yes they bark like a dog. They are in the Daintree rainforest hope they stay there too cheers from Aussie 🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘

[@slanderous.j]

Eight-legged Freaks is worth a watch.

[@mortagon1451]

Arachnophobia is another cult classic. There's a new French movie, I think it's called infestation, that's rather gnarly with some great spider effects.

[@TheAnticlinton]

One thing that never gets mentioned is that arthropod size limitations are far more severe than just from less efficient respiration. Even in marine environments, where arthropod gills are as effiicient as vertebrate gills the largest arthropods are dwarfed by the largest fish. The fact is that the exoskeleton is simply far less efficient in terms of weight growth, muscle attachments and structural support, which means arthropods can only grow so big before they can only move extremely slowly due to the weight of their exoskeleton.

[@PhilipSiddall]

Plus the giant spiders would no longer have spidery legs, but short thick legs like elephants. The body mass will increase as a cube when scaling up twice size, but the cross section of legs will only be increased as a square, and be far too weak. You would need to reduce gravity to get giant spiders that still looked like spiders.

[@mr.spider6859]

@@PhilipSiddall Yeah, I imagine spiders much larger than the Goliath Bird Eater would stop looking like actual spiders and more like something like coconut crabs.

[@shikazeevods]

i LOVE eight legged freaks, its hilarious

[@davadmillar1582]

"Everyone's worst nightmare is a giant spider." 2 meter centipede: "Hold my beer."

[@rickybryan1759]

You don’t see many scary bugs - laughs in Australian

[@poeterritory]

in Australia, those larger spiders are considered babies.

[@anticat900]

A good review, i always thought the oxygen level was not a complete reason for the large arthropods and competition (or lack of it) being more important. I would imagine spiders with book lungs could grow several times larger (like the giant coconut crabs) but would likely be too slow and heavy to protect themselves against modern predators?

[@maartendj2724]

The latter half was really interesting! A breath of fresh air from the old "every contemporary animal has a giant prehistoric version"

[@sgtStainless]

I’m watching this at about 1 AM, because I was bored. Good stuff

[@volkerpreu9555]

Incredible video !!! The subject as well as the path and concept of explanation and narration is awesome. Learning things can be so easy thanks to people like you. Volker from Munich

[@rj5726]

This looks like a great video to watch before bed

[@zivamayne]

I saw a video of a pet jumping spider yesterday, and that was like the first cute spider I’ve ever seen except for baby spiders

[@secondbeamship]

Spiders right now are the only land/air filter feeders.

[@VictorRochaFerreira6]

Filter feeder is a stretch but I would agree anyway because it’s cool to think of it like that

[@Texan_christian1132]

Actually in some parts of Texas spiders are kinda rare and scorpions are less common to but they can be found pretty well

[@Avigorus]

My favorite tin-hat idea for a giant spider (for the cryptid that's like large dog sized or whatever) is they somehow collect and store oxygen in their bodies as they sleep, then wake up, burn it while hunting/mating, then go back to sleep. As a result, they're only seen every few decades at most.

[@ticket2space]

Eight legged freaks is gold buddy, i can't believe anything you say now! Im just teasing brother great video 🤙

[@jasonseely9049]

Literally all those movies you showed are goated

[@alphatonic1481]

I once read somewhere that their exo skeleton is the limiting factor. An exoskeleton works for small animals only but big animals would not survive in earth's gravity. So huge spiders probably left earth for another planet with half of earth's gravity. ;)

[@terencejay8845]

This is something we covered way back in Biology class; Biomechanics. There are plenty of people who believe in the giants of old, a race of incredibly huge giants. The argument against that is the limitations of human or humanoid growth. A true giant would almost be crushed under its own weight and certainly would be incapable of stomping around.

[@gustavoramos4699]

Amazing video, very insightful

[@rifter0x0000]

Scorpions are usually outside, hiding under rotting wood, rocks, and leaf cover. This would be why most people today have not seen them often. We mostly stay inside these days, and aren't outside picking up logs to see what is under them. In parts of the southwest, scorpions are common enough that they sometimes come in people's houses, and might end up hiding in shoes, under clothing, or even being seen on the ceiling. Usually these are the smaller variety, because they can more easily crawl through spaces to get inside the home. So unless the humans have a bad encounter with them in their shoe, or they are bold enough to run on the ceiling, even these are rarely encountered. There are all kinds of bugs and animals in the world we share space with unawares, because we are not looking for them. We don't see them, but they do see us, and luckily usually avoid us.

[@Annathroy]

I was about to comment on the incorrect info regarding o2 in the air but I watched the whole video before I did. And I am glad I did, good video and good info. Thank You

[@Lobsterboy1776]

Amazing video, thanks for clearing up a lot of my misconception, especially the one about oxygen levels

[@UnderTheNorthStar]

Very interesting analysis, thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[@MatthewDePasse-sm9qf]

Arachnophobia, c Mon man. A damn fine piece of cinema

[@jakobc.2558]

I remember looking this up on wikipedia a few weeks ago and now this video got recommended to me. Even though I already knew the answere to the question, I still found the narration interesting so I stayed untill the end.

[@alexbowman7582]

Eh, hold on one minute, what about Spider-Man?

[@BatmanSeRiedeTi]

What about Man-Spider?

[@chadofchads4390]

@@BatmanSeRiedeTidon’t you mean the human spider?

[@DavidAnderson-m5c]

Good question, but he can't really do *whatever* a spider can.

[@poeterritory]

@@DavidAnderson-m5c But he can spin a web any size.

[@starthere5406]

A really good sort clear video documentary. I like the fact that things that are not known is mentioned as speculation. I hate it when things that are not fact are treated as facts, one sees that so often these days.

[@andrewcooper7949]

I've experience all the arachnids you've mentioned in the wild, but admittedly, I live in the Sonoran desert.

[@xenon_l_mckeeth]

Hey look, T. blondii is still really impressive, she's still a huuuge spider! Fabulous video btw

[@ThaWiz11]

Imagine trying to squash that big spider you'd have to hit it with a sledgehammer lol

[@RPLAsmodeus]

I refuse to believe that in a pre-historic world where you could get a dragonfly the size of your forearm, that there weren't giant spiders. Especially when the largest spider we have today, eats birds and survived evolution.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Dragonflies are much older than spiders. They were already pretty large by the beginning of the Carboniferous. Spiders arrived on land late. Thus they started small and stayed small.

[@JPayne95]

There is certainly a high chance of giant spiders existing, even today, there could be something deep in the Congo that's bigger than the goliath.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@JPayne95 Yep, there likely is. The "world's largest spider" is just a domesticated pet species selected from the wild due more to their adaptability and docility rather than their size.

[@davidpowell6098]

Perhaps they haven't discovered one yet, we are talking hundreds of millions of years, where we have been around for a fraction of that.

[@giorgiomaggioni3646]

If there aren’t any “giant spiders” I will be sure to make one

[@boldLizard]

Nicely narrated :)

[@morro190]

Fascinating video essay thats given me lots to think about.

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

You made this so interesting. I wasn't expecting to be so hooked.

[@Conneticat_yt]

There are few new / small youtubers that make good content. Youre one of them! Many use some wierd AI voice and thats just terrible. You are doing it great! (Just a few more pics, video clips would have been great but thats pretty easy to chnage... or maybe there just werent enough clips idk.) Very well made!

[@tylerwhite4557]

glad you’re potentially making some money talking about your passion and educating others about it, i’m jelly

Bowie's '87 Glass Spider Tour sported a huge spider and larger-than-life Peter Frampton. China Girl rocked.

[@old_toucs6283]

Fun fact. More oxygen means more pressure. Those massive flying pterosaurs can't fly in our atmosphere but with more oxygen they had the lift and power they needed to fly.

[@SmileyEmoji42]

How do you figure that more oxygen means more pressure? The density of the earth's atmosphere is determined primarily by gravity.

[@old_toucs6283]

@@SmileyEmoji42 More oxygen means more weight above hence more pressure. The Earth's pressure is not constant over scales of many millions of years. Our current atmosphere is not what we started with, it is what is left. Check the formulae for most rocks, oxides and carbonates, basically the fossilised remains of atmosphere. Continental plates recycle the gas but this process is not constant. Sometimes the Earth breaks up continents and has lots of volcanoes which gives high pressure. Sometimes the Earth builds super continents, like our time with Africa, India, Australia, and Japan slowly joining up with Europe and Asia to form a supercontinent sized reservoir of rock trapped pressure.

[@undead9999]

T. blondii is probably the peak evolution for spiders as spiders go. Anything bigger, if it ever existed, won't be a "true" spider (tarantulas aren't true spiders anyway, but you get my point). T. blondii is impressive as it is anyway. I know that first hand since I own one. Marvelous animal.

[@davidpowell6098]

Wow I had a Red Knee Tarantula years ago that lived for 15 years, she used to sit on my head, and scared off many a visitor. I bet yours is beautiful, too.

[@undead9999]

@@davidpowell6098 yeah she is. fortunately my wife is into arachnids and other exotics too, so that wasn't an issue when dating (we even joked that she comes after the spider in my priority list, which was a good laugh ahah)

[@fishyben3247]

6:23 this is what 10mm is for..

[@TheAtHamptonDotCom]

I love how you add nuance to a common scientific misconception

[@jim0jimmylee810]

Eight legged freaks is one of m'y all Time favorite movie. Their is so many good scene. Definitly the goat of Giant spider movie.

[@zivamayne]

I felt fear when the still image switched to video footage, because it might show a freaky moving spider

[@TheReaper569]

Biggest spider that existed is in your room watching you, watching this video.

[@crayveonmiller3909]

Just received a new subscriber my boy!!!! Dope video man

[@seppesch3701]

The real question is, why are jumping spooders so goddamn cute?

[@Maltebyte2]

No megs no giant spiders .... im going bed :( ... just kidding This was good bro!

[@fishsayhelo9872]

great video 👍

[@Ujuani68]

4:55: As a tarantula keeper, I wanna pet this critter! He/she looks so fluffy.🥰

[@poopooman6725]

No one gaf

[@sirpepeofhousekek6741]

I had one. Noooo you don't.

[@SleepingChimes]

2:00 another main reason why bugs aren't large is because exoskelotons don't scale well and lose a lot of support as volume increases. Endoskeletons become more worth for mechanical-structural integrity the larger a creature.

[@aaliguy9986]

Thank you for easing my nightmares a little.

[@SnoozyVideoGames]

underrated channel tbh

[@isaacgylldorff9605]

Interesting topic, I really enjoy seeing different species from a evulotionary stand point. There's always a reason for something to evolve the way that it does. Thank you!

[@SpaceCat712News]

My Pikachu evolved into Raichu with a thunder stone, but othe than that, evolution is a lie bro

[@Rekennnnn]

Thanks for the video. An interesting collage of theories and thoughts

[@username.exenotfound2943]

i feel like some people dont consider the possibility that we have the largest things so there MUST be something bigger, like the blue whale is the largest animal to have ever existed that we know(factor in length and weight) and its kind of in a league of its own

[@bogwatcher740]

Bugs crawl, Beetles fly, Spiders != Bugs, Spiders == Spiders.

[@adhdlama2403]

Fantastic video! Super interesting.

[@UnchartedPine]

As admittedly sad as I am that there was never a prehistoric spider that was just a gigantic creature from hell, I am glad that those creatures have never, and will never reach that level of sheer size.

[@Marconius-SPQR]

I live in Texas and I agree that scorpions are about, but rarely seen.

[@lsixty30]

This is insanely helpful for some giant bugs in my story. Also for, like, knowledge and stuff.

[@lsixty30]

Flowers are so cool.

[@HammerdownProtocol]

Fascinating. Subscribed.

[@DavidAnderson-m5c]

Ah, yes... if there's one thing all humanity hopes for, it's ever larger spiders.

[@FatsMuffinEater]

It's quite astonishing how many of these creatures names palaeontologists took directly from the video game Ark over the last couple of centuries.

[@chadefallstar]

Great video!

[@OrcsRwarCriminls]

Almost all of those Videos are actually good😊

[@DarkGodSeti]

Thank you for saying Arthropleura is a millipede! I know of a large-ish centipede (no idea of the era), but it's not that large. Would LOVE for us to find enormous centipedes (We already have giants). They are in so many niches, I'm sure we just haven't found any. What is that saying I heard before, something like: "We only found approx. 1% of life that has existed."

[@noneyabidness9644]

It was 4500 years ago, and higher oxygen levels pre-flood helped everything with a chitin exoskeleton grow exceptionally large (with time. Which they had more of.)

[@TheAtHamptonDotCom]

Sting looks like an ok movie btw.

[@alexbowman7582]

There’s mad scientists in America using high oxygen environments to grow giant cockroaches.

[@collinb.8542]

That's not good

[@orimoreau3138]

And he's a descendant of a German immigrant and somehow despite living in USA all his life he still has thick German accent

[@zivamayne]

@@orimoreau3138that’s why he’s a mad scientist

[@KennyCutout]

Poor scorpions. Even after they shrunk, dragonflies still kept their hunter reflexes and instincts, but scorpions are as dumb as roaches now.

[@wraith-cat]

Cool video! couldn't see any of it though 🤑

[@RehtlawS]

Great video 🕷

[@johannesvoss9880]

Great video, I enjoyed it a lot! 🙂

[@kallebuchholz2156]

It was a surprise, that the giant spider looked like a hippie

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

I wonder if the expansion of large trees also had an impact on large arthropods? Since trees make ideal sites for arthropods to perform ecdysis. In fact, many arthropods cannot properly molt without something to hang down off of. This boom in sizes would then end as soon as vertebrates developed climbing and/or upright gates allowing them to reach the large bugs at their most vulnerable.

[@AdhvaithSane]

Yes. And that would imply that if any such giant “insects” ever existed such as actual giant spiders, comparable to that of medium sized cars, then that means the trees that would exist on the planet at same time would be MASSIVELY bigger than even that biggest ones in the present day, I’m talking about the average tree heights that could easily reach heights, greater than the average heights of tall buildings or even Skyscrapers _(Yes. _*_Skyscrapers.),_* and that could only be the average, so you can guess what the tallest would be then _(Hint: The tallest tree then would be comparable to the tallest building in the world),_ which would make sense, as these humongous trees would compensate those giant insects who would be too large for our present day with all the oxygen they produce in great quantities and perhaps the giant insects would scale perfectly with these.. Sky-Trees, as insects would still be very small in comparison to tree sizes and heights like how small insects are to trees as we’ve seen in the past 7 or 20 decades and we continue to see in the present day, which means any and _(probably all)_ types of creatures that exist at the same time as those hypothetical trees _(to “science” anyways….)_ would actually be way bigger in body size and heights.. *including Humans.. sit with the implications of all that for a minute **_(especially the Human part, assuming those giant Humans weren’t some dumb apes like the ones we see today that are also quite distinguishable from us modern Humans)._*

[@arachnorion]

@@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 Yeah that's an interesting hypothesis. Some fossil tracks of arthropleura appear to show it traversing solid ground and water, leading researchers to believe the millipede was amphibious to some degree. It makes sense that it would have molted in the water since the largest arthropods today are crustaceans that either molt in the water or underground.

[@patwi-hg5cg]

Well executed Video!

[@Squadalahwereoff]

I just realized as well that theres not even a point for a spider to be giant (at least a webspinning one) because a web designed to catch flying prey wouldn't be able to support the weight of a spider that weighed like 40 + pounds. If there were giant spiders, then they'd be ground-walking bulky predators that would kill their prey by tackling them much like a constrictor snake. Their webs and venom glands would probably become weaker and useless over time. At that point, why even bother being s spider? That would explain why giant scorpions existed. A giant ground-dwelling spider would basically just be a scorpion without the stabbing tail.

[@Celatra]

Ground dwelling spiders already exist But they're quite small

[@nyxbi809]

Excellent video. Easy subscribe