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Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« on: November 20, 2017, 07:07:25 pm »
Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
Califorctenus cacachilensis is the width of a softball and represents a new genus of arachnids

By Jason Daley
smithsonian.com
April 11, 2017
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Arachnophobes, go to your happy place and please click here. Researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum along with other experts recently unveiled a new spider species found in Mexico that is roughly the size of a softball, reports Deborah Sullivan Brennan at the Los Angeles Times.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-new-spider-species-discovered-mexican-cave-180962848/#5bvwLRGEPyM07JAL.99
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2017, 07:13:13 pm »
Nuke that cave.
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2017, 07:39:43 pm »
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Nuke that cave.

From orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2017, 09:51:45 pm »
Quoting the article referenced:

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While Cacachilensis is pretty good sized, it’s nowhere near that world’s largest by leg span, Heteropoda maxima, the giant huntsman spider which lives in Laos. Its legs can grow as large as 1 foot and it also stands accused of spinning webs out of nightmares and feasting on children’s dreams.

I didn't make that up, the article actually says that.
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2017, 10:00:12 pm »
I wonder how they taste. I bet I could cook that dude up, into a spaghetti or maybe a roasted garlic butter thing on a stick.


He definitely looks edible to me. 
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2017, 10:05:46 pm »
Quote from: 240B on November 20, 2017, 10:00:12 pm
I wonder how they taste. I bet I could cook that dude up, into a spaghetti or maybe a roasted garlic butter thing on a stick.


He definitely looks edible to me.

Probably tastes a lot like one of these...

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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2017, 10:07:53 pm »
Quote from: 240B on November 20, 2017, 10:00:12 pm
I wonder how they taste. I bet I could cook that dude up, into a spaghetti or maybe a roasted garlic butter thing on a stick.


He definitely looks edible to me.

Just pony up the cash and get king crab.
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2017, 10:24:24 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on November 20, 2017, 10:07:53 pm
Just pony up the cash and get king crab.

Or a lobster.  Spend more than a dollar.
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
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Nah. I don't think I'll eat him. Change of heart. Let him go forth a multiply. I don't know. I kind of like the little fellow.
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Re: Huge New Spider Species Discovered in Mexican Cave
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2017, 11:16:05 pm »
It is true that crab, and lobster, and shrimp, are bugs.
They are bugs that live in the ocean, but they are still just bugs.

And yes, a crab is a form of waterborne spider. It is in the same arthropod grouping as a spider is.
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