Spider Thread - updated

[Hornin Hong Kong]

New Spider discovered - 30cm across - commence your nightmares arachnophobes
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"With legs as long as 30cm, the heteropoda maxima (giant huntsman spider) is said to be as large as a dinner plate. It is the largest huntsman spider known to mankind. At least 88 new species of spiders have been found in the Greater Mekong area in the past ten years, including the giant huntsman spider.
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[TexasRx]

Not as menacing as SpiderAg

 

[Finger Likcin']

 

[MilkmanDan]

A season like this calls for a Larry that big.

 

[Third Coast]

 

[Finger Likcin']

 

[baylorbear245]

And i was looking forward to getting some sleep tonight.....THANKS hong kong!

 

[Bevo Incognito]

Okay, this thing is 11 inches across.

It moves around.

How was it just "recently discovered?"

 

[GhostOfTomJoad]

I did not need to click on this thread.

 

[johnny chimpo]

Damn all of you for this.

 

[CottonEyedHorn]

 

[buckhorn]

Totally awesome.

The world's largest 'huntsmen' variety of spider (these have the legs that joint forward rather than the more conventional up-down positioning).

Apparently one of more than 1,000 new species of plant and animal life found in the Mekong Delta region (VN, Laos, Cambodia, China).

I think they found this spider in a cave. They also found a pink millipede and a rock rat that was believed to have been extinct for 14 million years.

Very ******* cool.

 

[johnny chimpo]

I think the article said the pink millepede secretes cyanide.

 

[Steel Shank]

 

[Kwisatz]

Spiders are #1 on my personal Threat Down. Arachnophobia was the scariest movie I've ever seen.

 

[Bookman]

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[Texanne]

Spiders are freaks. Why in the hell does anything need EIGHT legs?

 

[Homesickhorn]

 

[washparkhorn]

Mommy . . .

 

[buckhorn]

Cotton-eyed:

Did you make that yourself?

Very cool. I want one.

 

[OrangeBlooded]

 

[HookemDanno]

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[bigbend1812]

 

[MaduroUTMB]

Do we name it Roy or Brian?

 

[Bill_McNeal]

Regarding Steel Shank's post:

PACKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!