hatchlings

Updated: May 7, 2025

But now, like the mantis, who had grown of Nature's necessity alongside it, the giant spiders were an archaic and dying race. And without the ensuing cannibalism among the hatchlings -out of which several hundred would be reduced to perhaps a dozen -those that survived were more feeble, easier for both the mantises and natural attrition to kill.

Christopher Leadem - The Mantooth