#SPORE WIKI SKIN#
Their thick skin can repel bullets from rifles, but they may not be strong enough to serve as protections from Skullcrawlers, and they will not risk fighting the powerful predators. With their large log-like bodies, the Spore Mantises endurance might be as high as creatures that are similar size to their size. The Spore Mantises wooden tree-like bodies allow them to blend in with the surrounding forests. The giant insect then fled from a Skullcrawler that immediately devoured Chapman. Chapman tried to kill it with his rifle, but the bullets only caused a bit of bark to fall off. After the Spore Mantis was startled, it attempts to eat him. Jack Chapman encountered a Spore Mantis while trying to navigate through the island on his own. Our cryptobiology department appreciates the transparency. The digestive system uses a protein-rich sap to digest and encase the bodies of its prey, before excreting the remains, perfectly preserved as crystalline amber droppings that clearly reveal what it has eaten within. Housed within an epidermis of bark and vascular tissue, the Spore Mantis' trunk is host to a large, slug-like parasite with spiked teeth and bone-crushing jaws. The General Sherman tree might have the record in terms of height, but then again the General Sherman can't get up and hunt you down. These appendages allow the Spore Mantis to scuttle across the ground at alarming speed.Ī new king of trees has been crowned. The limbs of its bark-skinned body house a powerful muscle system that is a unique interweaving of striated tendons and fibrous structural tissues more commonly found in the stems and roots of trees. They can also be very aggressive when startled or when something decided to stand or sit on their backs.Ī gigantic precursor to the Phasmatodea order, the Spore Mantis is, in essence, a stick insect the size of a mature redwood tree. Spore Mantises remain camouflaged until their prey is within the right distance to attack. The roars of Spore Mantises are insect-like and very high pitched despite their size. They have six wood-shaped legs and bark-like skin covering their bodies, and their head is small and retractable into the log-like covering. Spore Mantises resemble stick-insects, albeit one so big it instead mimics a fallen log. The name 'Spore' means that a cell made by some plants that are like a seed and can produce a new plant while 'Mantis' is an insect.