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Researchers Discover New Species of Giant Spider (mentalfloss.com)
adeelarshad82 writes: Califorctenus cacachilensis, recently named by researchers at the San Diego Natural History Museum, was first located in 2013 in a mountain range in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The eye pattern led researchers to believe it was potentially part of a group of wandering spiders from the Ctenidae family. Knowing Ctenidae are nocturnal, the researchers returned to the cave at night, where they spotted a living specimen. Their research further led them to confirm that it was a previously unidentified species related to the Brazilian wandering spider. The findings have been published in Zootaxa.
One more thing to worry about - giant spiders from Mexico.
Will Trump's wall keep them out?
a lot more than they thought
How giant is giant?
“I got bit while handling a live specimen of Califorctenus cacachilensis, and I’m still alive,” Berrian said.
Do Brazilian spiders have hair though?
No deadly-boner-inducing toxin?? How utterly unremarkable.
Thank you unspecified researchers, always making wonderful new discoveries to benefit all of us.
Or the name has already been taken?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I found a giant snake In my pants
It may be a giant snake for you, but it's a pygmy snake to the rest of us. Or did you not know your camera's enabled?
I'm an arachnophile.
You must have had a lot of empty space there in your pants then.
Sounds like the name of a Utah Jazz power forward drafted from Latvia.
You are welcome on my lawn.
NO! Just so much NOOooooooo... No gross giant weird wandering spiders! NO! Ew... gross...
There's a monster in my pants, and it does a modern dance.
When it sees the light of day, you can hear the people say,
Monster, ah! Monster, ah!
Where do you get the impression that this is about a new species of *giant* spider? If you had bothered to read the paper you would have noticed that the specimen they captured were less than 30 mm in length. How is that giant? The word giant doesn't even appear anywhere in this paper.
The worlds "biggest" spiders reach sizes of around 30 cm (note the different prefix).
There are common household spiders larger than 30 mm....
I would urge the author to actually read the cited paper. No matter what you think about yourself... 40 mm is *not* giant :)
I found the next MOAB target.
Spiders are related to crabs. Are these things big enough to try my crabcake recipes on? A quick boil with some old bay should remove the hair...
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. Seth
Now, this is a giant spider!
Ooh, I don't like spiders and snakes.
...would like a word with you.
Why would they do this? This is like hearing they developed a way to make more bloodthirsty mosquitoes. Let's focus science back on making better electric cars, space travel, faster computers, etc...
Because ridiculing names is so tolerant ... if it is directed at white Europeans.
Once again one of Slashdot's resident leftists reveals their true colors.
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.