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Meet the Tarantula as Big as Your Face
Discovery News ^
| 4-5-2013
| Marc Lallanilla
Posted on 04/07/2013 4:49:54 AM PDT by Renfield
It's big, it's hairy, and it's venomous.
The newest spider to give arachnophobes the willies, a tarantula named Poecilotheria rajaei has been discovered on the island nation of Sri Lanka.
With a leg span of 8 inches (20 centimeters) and enough venom to kill mice, lizards, small birds and snakes, according to Sky News, the crawler is covered in subtle markings of gray, pink and daffodil yellow.
"It can be quite attractive, unless spiders freak you out," Peter Kirk, editor of the British Tarantula Society journal, told the New York Daily News.
Even the scientists studying the spiders admit to being a little freaked out by its size: "It was slightly smaller than the size of the plate we have dinner on," Ranil Nanayakkara, co-founder of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Education and Research, told the Daily News....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: arachnophobes; arachnophobia; cryptobiology; poecilotheriarajaei; science; spiders; srilanka; tarantula
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posted on
04/07/2013 4:49:55 AM PDT
by
Renfield
To: Renfield
It needs something like a quarter next to it to show its size. Otherwise, it could be just a small spider with the camera zoomed in!
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posted on
04/07/2013 4:56:03 AM PDT
by
MNDude
(I survived the sequester!)
To: Renfield
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posted on
04/07/2013 4:57:47 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: Renfield
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posted on
04/07/2013 4:58:29 AM PDT
by
District13
(Obama scares me)
To: Renfield
Very beautiful creature. Appears to have 10 legs, plus the fangs.
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:06:46 AM PDT
by
wita
To: Renfield; mickie
A scary, creepy, crawly tarantula of the genus Poecilotheria has a name that is very apro-poe.....almost as apro-poe as the screen name of the poster of this thread, LOL.
Leni
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:08:00 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
To: Renfield
itsy.. bitsy.. spider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qee0Gmr9XJU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:21:48 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
That’s an actual photo of the event. I was there! I am the second guy from the left!
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:22:28 AM PDT
by
Castigar
To: Renfield
"It's big, it's hairy, and it's venomous."
My ex wife?
CC
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:24:52 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Hey liberals, what part of "unalienable" don't you understand?)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
The first scary flic I ever saw.
The opening scene with a pajama'd man staggering in the desert, sunburned and disfigured, was the first "shock" I had ever experienced.
The camera slowly closed in on the man staggering, then he fell .. (face down, I think) .. and he slowly rolled over ...
Leo G Carrol, I think.
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:28:58 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Renfield
“With a leg span of 8 inches (20 centimeters) “
8”? Is that all? Down in the Big Bend (Texas) this would be a pup! Down there, these critters get about the size of trash can lids and that’s just the runts, lol :)
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:35:33 AM PDT
by
snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
To: Renfield
To: Renfield; MinuteGal; Celtic Conservative; Castigar; knarf
a tarantula named Poecilotheria rajaei has been discovered on the island nation of Sri Lanka.But not as terrifying as...
the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka!!
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:36:30 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
To: knarf
Same here....I was about 6 years old, as I recall, and it was on KTLA (Los Angeles) one Sunday afternoon.
Surprisingly, I didn’t end up arachnophobic, LOL!
Yes, I do believe that was Leo G. Carrol. Great film; a classic.
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:38:25 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
04/07/2013 5:39:12 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:17:30 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: Renfield
The Costa Rica Chicken-eating Spider:
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:24:25 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: Renfield
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:36:35 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
I may be wrong but their was a small scene actor, a police courier on a motorcycle that was sent out, spider killed him.
Anyone care to speculate who that actor was?
Initials are C E.
I may be wrong but its just a bit of trivia.
To: Eye of Unk
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posted on
04/07/2013 6:50:45 AM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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