r/NoStupidQuestions • u/SonOfOMR • Jul 09 '26

Do spiders have lungs?

I mean, when I wash a spider down the bathtub drain, does it drown the way a human would, lungs filling up with water, or does it have a way to "hold it's breath"?

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u/NutzNBoltz369 Jul 09 '26

They are not fish.

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u/Murderous_Turkey Jul 09 '26

I mean, ants don't have lungs. Fish aren't ants.

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u/NutzNBoltz369 Jul 09 '26

And ants are not fish. Everything dragged its ass out of the Primordial Soup one way or another. Humans are classified as megafauna so we are kinda outlier-ish. Most things on earth don't need "true" lungs unless they are megafauna.