What is the biology of a spiderling?
Many different books and novels contain creatures that have human upper body. But have the legs and thorax of spider. They are usually called by different names but they're sort of like centaurs but instead of a cross between a human and a horse they're a cross between a human and a spider. What biology would this creature need in order to exist without the help of magic?
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So brushing away the problems with making a spider big enough to be "half human": What kind of world changes are necessary to make giant spiders feasible?
Biology wise It could still have the same organs in the same general areas:
And get the "half human" effect by simply having a differently shaped cephalothorax, where the head and thorax are fused like in a normal spiders, except that the "head" is shaped to resemble a human upper body (in low light).
The pedipalps could act like the "arms" for instance.
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