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Scientists Discover Strange New Tarantula Species With ‘Horn’ on Its Back in Southwestern Africa
www.theepochtimes.com ^ | y Robert Jay Watson June 8, 2020 Updated: June 8, 2020

Posted on 06/08/2020 2:20:35 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 06/08/2020 2:20:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
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2 posted on 06/08/2020 2:21:37 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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3 posted on 06/08/2020 2:24:34 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

Pandemic, riots, murder Hornets, and now horned tarantulas.


4 posted on 06/08/2020 2:24:38 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Red Badger

Out: Murder Hornets
In: Horned Baboon Spiders (from Mars?)


5 posted on 06/08/2020 2:24:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

A horny tarantula!


6 posted on 06/08/2020 2:26:25 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Aiyee Tila, she is a big one!)
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To: Red Badger

“The scientists haven’t determined what function the horn serves”

Looks like a bottle opener. That’s your teleology right there.


7 posted on 06/08/2020 2:27:00 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Red Badger

This story has legs.


8 posted on 06/08/2020 2:30:39 PM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Looks like a deflated condom.


9 posted on 06/08/2020 2:32:34 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Red Badger
The scientists haven’t determined what function the horn serves

I'm not an arachnologist but I think that the first thing I'd do is make sure the horn isn't some form of venom delivery system.

10 posted on 06/08/2020 2:34:55 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m glad I’m reading this story now instead of right before bed.


11 posted on 06/08/2020 2:40:05 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Red Badger

Rocket pack.

Rocket spider bites you and flies off.


12 posted on 06/08/2020 2:45:22 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

13 posted on 06/08/2020 2:50:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Nah, it’s soft. Probably just arachnal dysfunction.


14 posted on 06/08/2020 2:51:07 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Ken H
This story has legs.

Looks like about 10 of them.

15 posted on 06/08/2020 3:16:28 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Six posts before the inevitable horny tarantula post. Some are slipping here.
But not you Froggy!
Good work!


16 posted on 06/08/2020 3:39:19 PM PDT by oldvirginian (The average "progressive" makes Jethro Bodean look like Albert Einstein)
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To: rightwingcrazy
Looks like a finger.

It bites you, then flips you off.

17 posted on 06/08/2020 4:09:50 PM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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On the subject, if you’ve not seen these photos of flowers, you must. They’re real.....I checked.

https://verocommunique.com/2016/09/09/flowers-that-even-darwin-cant-explain-mother-nature-never-fails-to-impress/


18 posted on 06/08/2020 4:11:05 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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You bettah bring really *big* can, Yankee!!


19 posted on 06/08/2020 4:34:45 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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I saw that movie when I was a kid. Was scared of any spider for weeks afterward!


20 posted on 06/08/2020 4:43:47 PM PDT by EinNYC
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