Giant praying mantis.
I mean, it's a good description. It preys on things, and its big, and its a mantis.
Just pray it isn't a high level if you see one and you aren't ready...
The leap is as big as the U.S. President's net worth...

I can tell you from experience that in fleeing this bug you only need 1 tranq. Yep i shot that thing into my tribemates knee and was able to escape at a brisk pace as the mantis ate him

Here's a sad story bout my mantis ray

He was THE BEST choice for EVERYTHING, meat runs, taming, all around good boy, one day I went to the red obelisk and I was depositing items for tribute and suddenly some jerks poison wyvern and 5 carnos killed my thyla's and the wyvern killed me off rays back and about 2 minutes later I got a message saying "Your ray LVL 73 (mantis) was killed by Medusa (wyvern)" worst day on Scorched EVER... :( (this was like 3 days ago)

If there was a living Swiss army knife it would be the Mantis

Mining away.. HACKING AWAY AT HUMAN FLESH