Anyway, what's the story with that? 99% of me thinks it's exagurrated, but what if...
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I once read about giant spiders in the Papua-New Guinean forests who can grow up to 2 metres LMAO.
Anyway, what's the story with that? 99% of me thinks it's exagurrated, but what if...
Anyway, what's the story with that? 99% of me thinks it's exagurrated, but what if...
spider man did it
lmao @ Lord.
Got a pic by any chance?
Got a pic by any chance?
The biggest spiders in the world are either the Bird-Eating Spider, or the Goliath Spider, i can't remember which.
They grow in diameter with legs spread to about the size of an average dinner plate.
Theres nothing bigger in Arachnids.
Until recently it was thought that there lived an ancient, now extinct form of Spider that did grow to such lengths, but it was recently found to be actually a Sea Scorpion, a type of crustacion that lived about 30 million years ago.
They grow in diameter with legs spread to about the size of an average dinner plate.
Theres nothing bigger in Arachnids.
Until recently it was thought that there lived an ancient, now extinct form of Spider that did grow to such lengths, but it was recently found to be actually a Sea Scorpion, a type of crustacion that lived about 30 million years ago.
How big was this scorpion?
'Bout 2 meters, give or take, me thinks.
Prettey big. Wouldnt want to find one of those in your shoe.
QUOTE(Walken @ Feb 24 2005, 06:37 PM)
Prettey big. Wouldnt want to find one of those in your shoe.
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or a swimming pool for that matter (lived most of its life in water rite?)
You could throw a shoe in a swimming pool!
i cant wait to tell my g/f,hahahahahhahaha , she hates spiders.
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ahh.... but a 2m+ size shoe??
I'm not sure what time it is where you live...
but where I'm at, it's somewhere between 10 and 11.
but where I'm at, it's somewhere between 10 and 11.
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BurnSide
dude how bigs ur clock?
BurnSide
dude how bigs ur clock?
That's an old picture, but it still creeps me out everytime i see it.
QUOTE(BurnSide @ Feb 24 2005, 07:28 PM)
That's an old picture, but it still creeps me out everytime i see it.
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how old exactly??
First time i saw it was about 3 years ago.
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dude how bigs ur clock?
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First of all, I'm a dudette...notta dude... but hey, whatever...
The clock appears to be approximately 8 to 10 inches across. I'm metric illiterate, so if anyone wants to convert that to cm, km or kg... by all means, please do.
The "spider behind the clock" pics are old, indeed. They've been floating around the internet for a few years now. No matter how many times I see them, they still creep me out.
Scary...
The shoe doesnt have to be 2 meters.
I dont get it? Is it a small clock or something?
The shoe doesnt have to be 2 meters.
I dont get it? Is it a small clock or something?
It's a big clock, with a big spider behind it. WHat's not to get?
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dude how bigs ur clock?
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First of all, I'm a dudette...notta dude... but hey, whatever...
The clock appears to be approximately 8 to 10 inches across. I'm metric illiterate, so if anyone wants to convert that to cm, km or kg... by all means, please do.
The "spider behind the clock" pics are old, indeed. They've been floating around the internet for a few years now. No matter how many times I see them, they still creep me out.
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soz bit ignorant there my apologiesplus im blind 2day for sum reason
Oh. I thought it was a small clock.
QUOTE(BurnSide @ Feb 24 2005, 07:38 PM)
It's a big clock, with a big spider behind it. WHat's not to get?
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yeh. tho it will be nice to get size measurements (e.g ruler)
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yeh. tho it will be nice to get size measurements (e.g ruler)
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What good would it do? Guys always lie about the size anyway.
Any more pics like this?
I was cleaing our garage when I found like 5 of these spiders, like the picture. I was so scared, I hate any spider that grows longer then 5cm (2inch).
Luckily I had one of those rackets to catch flies which uses electricity to kill them.
But a smell that it gave, JUG....
Luckily I had one of those rackets to catch flies which uses electricity to kill them.
But a smell that it gave, JUG....
That's one hell of a wristwatch that spider has.
I hate spiders. I never kill them though, because Im a vegeterian hippy with problems. Lol, they may be ugly and scary, but deep down we all love them.
I knew that it was a big clock when I first saw it. I still hate spiders. 
They're not so bad. If they didnt exsist we'd be stuck with flys.
Is there any truth to the old wive's tale that says that if you kill a spider, it will soon rain?
QUOTE(bloo @ Feb 25 2005, 08:01 PM)
Is there any truth to the old wive's tale that says that if you kill a spider, it will soon rain?
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Nah...
If thats the truth there must be a lot of spider-haters in the Netherlands...
D. is making fun of his own country...
...we are all laughing...
HA HA Ha Ha ha ha h...
I'm an old vegetarian, non-spider killing hippie too. The thing is, if you let some live in your house, you won't be infested with harmfull insects.
The really good thing is that they kill and eat earwigs (yeech).
The really good thing is that they kill and eat earwigs (yeech).
@Burnside
The spider is actually called 'Goliath Bird Eater'
I had one for a short period of time but needed to give it too a friend of mine once it started to get bigger.
He had the right equipment etc.
Full grown these things scare the hell out of me and i love spiders.
The spider is actually called 'Goliath Bird Eater'
I had one for a short period of time but needed to give it too a friend of mine once it started to get bigger.
He had the right equipment etc.
Full grown these things scare the hell out of me and i love spiders.
Talking of dinner plate size.......
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Talking of dinner plate size.......
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iz dat a tarantula?, or Goliath bird eater?
P.S anwayz how much wuld these exotic things cost??
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Is there any truth to the old wive's tale that says that if you kill a spider, it will soon rain?
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Nah...
If thats the truth there must be a lot of spider-haters in the Netherlands...
D. is making fun of his own country...
...we are all laughing...
HA HA Ha Ha ha ha h...
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i heard theres a place in pacific ocean that recieve rain more than 300 days of the year. i wonder.....
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iz dat a tarantula?, or Goliath bird eater? dontgetit.gif
P.S anwayz how much wuld these exotic things cost?? dontgetit.gif hmm.gif
P.S anwayz how much wuld these exotic things cost?? dontgetit.gif hmm.gif
Both....the Goliath bird eating spider is a tarantula variant...
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iz dat a tarantula?, or Goliath bird eater? dontgetit.gif
P.S anwayz how much wuld these exotic things cost?? dontgetit.gif hmm.gif
P.S anwayz how much wuld these exotic things cost?? dontgetit.gif hmm.gif
Both....the Goliath bird eating spider is a tarantula variant...
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cheers
got mixed up 4 sum reason
QUOTE(BurnSide @ Feb 24 2005, 11:59 AM)
They grow in diameter with legs spread to about the size of an average dinner plate.
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Damn! I did it again. Just like Pandora I had to open this thread...That clock picture is just plain creepy!
*breathes deeply, goes to her happy place*
a few years back(5 0r so) i was watching a show on the discovery channel. and it was talking bout this guy who was taken pics of grizzly bears and he wanted to really get up close and personal without all the blood and pain an such, im thinking why not a larger lense but i gesse they can move pretty quick.
so he decided on body armor and after some trials, he finnaly ended up mixin some secret resins(he wouldent say) and the silk from ,,,i wanna say something like an orb spider but i cant quite remember.
he said it took a long long time to gather this silk cause these spiders are extramly aggressive towards one another more then other spiders. he had to keep them seperated.
any how he made a bear resistant suit, dude looked like a friggen tank.
the grizzlys would just throw the guy around, hed get all his pics and come out unscathed. i hate to have been the one to test try it but it worked any how.
i cant help but wonder if it was the acual spider silk or the resins he used that accounted for the accual strength of the body armor?
i wish i could remember the name of the type of spider he used
so he decided on body armor and after some trials, he finnaly ended up mixin some secret resins(he wouldent say) and the silk from ,,,i wanna say something like an orb spider but i cant quite remember.
he said it took a long long time to gather this silk cause these spiders are extramly aggressive towards one another more then other spiders. he had to keep them seperated.
any how he made a bear resistant suit, dude looked like a friggen tank.
the grizzlys would just throw the guy around, hed get all his pics and come out unscathed. i hate to have been the one to test try it but it worked any how.
i cant help but wonder if it was the acual spider silk or the resins he used that accounted for the accual strength of the body armor?
i wish i could remember the name of the type of spider he used
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iz dat a tarantula?, or Goliath bird eater?
P.S anwayz how much wuld these exotic things cost??
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I bought a baby one (which was still pretty damn big for a hatchling) a few years back for $50.
The spider behind the clock looks fake to me... it would have trouble getting in behind the clock as it looks like it fit snug to the wall, the spiders legs are in exactly the same position behind teh clock as it is when it is on the wall and finally the way it holds itself on the wall does not look right...
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A 300 million year old, half metre long, fossil arachnid, Megarachne servinei, was originally described as a spider, but is now thought more likely to represent another type of spider-like ancient arachnid. Its unique features include the enormous size, massive shovel-like jaws and ribbed, shield-like covering over the abdomen. An arachnid of this size must have fed on large prey like cockroaches and giant millipedes. But why did this massive predator need such an impressively armoured body - were there even bigger arachnid predators about?
http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/diversi...hat/largest.htm
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She was "Big Meg," the largest of all spiders that ever strode the Earth. The 300-million-year-old fossil was so famous that plaster casts of her body are on display in numerous museums and copies can be purchased over the Internet for hundreds of dollars apiece.
As for the original, it was carefully locked away from public view. It was so precious that it was placed in a bank vault pending the outcome of an ownership squabble.
Alas... a quarter of a century after the historic find, it transpires that Megarachne servinei was never a spider, but a rather odd-looking and certainly less exotic species of sea scorpion.
"Big Meg" unleashed huge excitement after her find in Argentina's San Luis province.
No other creature like it had been found.
The assumption was that it was a giant spider, the mother of tarantulas, with a body length of 33.9 centimetres (13.55 inches), a leg span of 50cm (20 inches) and goggly eyes more than one centimetre (half an inch) wide.
The chance of a second look came with the discovery of another "Megarachne" in the same stratum in the province's Bajo de Veliz rock formation.
Megarachne is a "bizarre eurypterid," or sea scorpion, similar to a species called Woodwardopterus that was first discovered in 1959, according to the new study, published online on Wednesday in Biology Letters, a journal of Britain's Royal Society.
Eurypterid fossils of this kind have been found in Scotland and South Africa.
One of the three authors is Mario Huenicken of the Regional Centre for Scientific Investigation and Technological Transfer in Anillaco, Argentina.
Huenicken was among the team that described "Big Meg" back in 1980 and now seeks to set the scientific record straight.
As for the original, it was carefully locked away from public view. It was so precious that it was placed in a bank vault pending the outcome of an ownership squabble.
Alas... a quarter of a century after the historic find, it transpires that Megarachne servinei was never a spider, but a rather odd-looking and certainly less exotic species of sea scorpion.
"Big Meg" unleashed huge excitement after her find in Argentina's San Luis province.
No other creature like it had been found.
The assumption was that it was a giant spider, the mother of tarantulas, with a body length of 33.9 centimetres (13.55 inches), a leg span of 50cm (20 inches) and goggly eyes more than one centimetre (half an inch) wide.
The chance of a second look came with the discovery of another "Megarachne" in the same stratum in the province's Bajo de Veliz rock formation.
Megarachne is a "bizarre eurypterid," or sea scorpion, similar to a species called Woodwardopterus that was first discovered in 1959, according to the new study, published online on Wednesday in Biology Letters, a journal of Britain's Royal Society.
Eurypterid fossils of this kind have been found in Scotland and South Africa.
One of the three authors is Mario Huenicken of the Regional Centre for Scientific Investigation and Technological Transfer in Anillaco, Argentina.
Huenicken was among the team that described "Big Meg" back in 1980 and now seeks to set the scientific record straight.
The clock spider is a Huntsman spider, not sure what spieces. Any Australian will tell u horror stories about them, not poisonous, but big, hairy and run fast. The pic might look fake, but huntsmen are unique, they are very flat, can run sidewards and squeeze their body through very small spaces. The biggest i have seen is about the size of a cd but i am sure they get bigger like in the clock pic.
Thanks for the info... does it actually position itself ona wall like that? and welcome to UM.
That one in the clock pictures looks very differnt to the Goliathe Bird Eater images I found via Google
The giant bird eater would never fit under that clock, they are big ugly things with horrible irritant bristles and big fangs..
Do a google on Huntsman spiders
Thanks for the welcome
Hey I saw one of these "clock" spiders here in Mich.
I was watching the tube and happened to look behind
me and there it was on the wall. I usually don't kill
spiders (natural insecticide), but this guy had to go.
Had to have been close to 5 cm!! (legs not body).
I've seen wolf spiders get that big (maybe bigger),
up here but that "clock" spider was CREEPY.
I was watching the tube and happened to look behind
me and there it was on the wall. I usually don't kill
spiders (natural insecticide), but this guy had to go.
Had to have been close to 5 cm!! (legs not body).
I've seen wolf spiders get that big (maybe bigger),
up here but that "clock" spider was CREEPY.
Are these the same spiders that are in Arizona???
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