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“They were pinkish things about five feet long; with crustaceous bodies bearing vast pairs of dorsal fins or membraneous wings and several sets of articulated limbs, and with a sort of convoluted ellipsoid, covered with multitudes of very short antennae, where a head would ordinarily be.... As it was, nearly all the rumours had several points in common; averring that the creatures were a sort of huge, light-red crab with many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of their back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and sometimes on the hindmost pair only, using the others to convey large objects of indeterminate nature. On one occasion they were spied in considerable numbers, a detachment of them wading along a shallow woodland watercourse three abreast in evidently disciplined formation. Once a specimen was seen flying—launching itself from the top of a bald, lonely hill at night and vanishing in the sky after its great flapping wings had been silhouetted an instant against the full moon.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

This seems to me to be one of the most interesting race of the lovecraftian universe, being the only fully active species by the time mankind exists with having several bases around the northern hemisphere and mining in almost inaccessible territories, also for its ability to transplant human brains in strange metal jars with which those selected people can travel beyond the earth to any point of space.

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Edit: Added robust last pair of legs.

Description
“They were pinkish things about five feet long; with crustaceous bodies bearing vast pairs of dorsal fins or membraneous wings and several sets of articulated limbs, and with a sort of convoluted ellipsoid, covered with multitudes of very short antennae, where a head would ordinarily be.... As it was, nearly all the rumours had several points in common; averring that the creatures were a sort of huge, light-red crab with many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of their back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and sometimes on the hindmost pair only, using the others to convey large objects of indeterminate nature. On one occasion they were spied in considerable numbers, a detachment of them wading along a shallow woodland watercourse three abreast in evidently disciplined formation. Once a specimen was seen flying—launching itself from the top of a bald, lonely hill at night and vanishing in the sky after its great flapping wings had been silhouetted an instant against the full moon.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

This seems to me to be one of the most interesting race of the lovecraftian universe, being the only fully active species by the time mankind exists with having several bases around the northern hemisphere and mining in almost inaccessible territories, also for its ability to transplant human brains in strange metal jars with which those selected people can travel beyond the earth to any point of space.

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Edit: Added robust last pair of legs.