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Goliath Encounter: Puppy-Sized Spider Surprises Scientist in Rainforest
LiveScience ^
| October 17, 2014
| Tanya Lewis
Posted on 10/18/2014 10:38:31 AM PDT by EveningStar
Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when he heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When he turned on his flashlight, he expected to see a small mammal, such as a possum or a rat.
"When I turned on the light, I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing," said Naskrecki, an entomologist and photographer at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
A moment later, he realized he was looking not at a brown, furry mammal, but an enormous, puppy-size spider...
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(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: arachnid; arachnids; goliathbirdeater; guyana; rainforest; southamerica; spider; spiders; tarantula; theraphosablondi; worldslargestspider
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To: Slings and Arrows
To: EveningStar
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posted on
10/18/2014 10:42:45 AM PDT
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Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: EveningStar
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10/18/2014 10:43:36 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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10/18/2014 10:43:41 AM PDT
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FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: EveningStar
Gads. If I were Piotr I’d be on the lookout for a 40 foot tall primate.
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10/18/2014 10:43:57 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: EveningStar
They make darling pets...NOT! :-)
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10/18/2014 10:44:47 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: EveningStar
Little Miss Muffet has come up missing.....think I know why now.
Her tuffet turned up at a local flea market.
To: UCANSEE2
"Oh, crap."
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10/18/2014 10:46:13 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: EveningStar
“(click image to enlarge)”
Why would I want that SOB to get bigger?
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10/18/2014 10:46:28 AM PDT
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Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: EveningStar
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10/18/2014 10:48:17 AM PDT
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nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Jeff Chandler
Or.... “Hey Charlie, want a sip of my hooch ?”
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10/18/2014 10:49:46 AM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Jeff Chandler
That was my expression when I clicked and enlarged the image!
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10/18/2014 10:52:02 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: EveningStar
I think I have seen them use these things in movies or pretend to. Don’t these spiders even catch birds?
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10/18/2014 10:52:56 AM PDT
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GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Yeah, I need a click-to-erase-from-memory-before-I-go-to-sleep button.
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10/18/2014 10:53:20 AM PDT
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txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: EveningStar
I lived down there.
The so called “matootoo” was the smaller one, the “mygal” was the larger bird killer.
You also had tiny little cute blue snakes no longer than your pinky but deadly poisonous.
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10/18/2014 10:55:02 AM PDT
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lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
To: EveningStar
That guy is gonna need bigger shoes.
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10/18/2014 10:55:28 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: EveningStar
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10/18/2014 10:58:41 AM PDT
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bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: EveningStar
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10/18/2014 10:59:30 AM PDT
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cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe..)
To: EveningStar
Late post, but I KNOW the video of the suited up dog will be below! I know it, I know it! Good.
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10/18/2014 11:09:42 AM PDT
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Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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