Creepy crawly

[Legacy_3RavensMore]

               

You all have probably seen this guy before but...  For me, it would take some serious bladder control to put my hand that close.

 

http://news.yahoo.co...-125720953.html

 

 

Well, I tried to link the image, but it seems I'm not allow to links images.  (pout)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ia.Pepper]

               

They just keep getting bigger, and I just keep going outside less and less!

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_rjshae]

               

These have been showing up in our neck of the woods lately...

 

 

A giant house spider... '>

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_NWN_baba yaga]

               

I think spiders are pretty graceful most of the time but this goliath is just scary. I wonder if we humans once had a terrible encounter with them on mass... whenever i see them i get a feeling i cannot explain. Even they are so small in size here and harmfull like a fly there is something in my genetics that ... i dont know '>

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_werelynx]

               

I think spiders are pretty graceful most of the time but this goliath is just scary. I wonder if we humans once had a terrible encounter with them on mass... whenever i see them i get a feeling i cannot explain. Even they are so small in size here and harmfull like a fly there is something in my genetics that ... i dont know '>

You mean our alien spider overlords?

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

What I find intriguing is the fact that there are over 40,000 species and so far we only know 1 which is a herbibore.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               

If I remember correctly, there is a fossil of a prehistoric spider leg that measures nearly four feet in length. Multiply that by two and you have a pair of legs that span eight feet. Combine that with a body that is probably half as wide as the leg length and you a thorax approximately two feet in diameter. 

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

I believe that the huge spider referenced in the BBC series "Walking with Monsters" has since been reclassified as a sea creature that was a spider relative. There are still other "bugs" in the fossil record that are extreme counterparts to today's varieties however.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Bluebomber4evr]

               

Bugs were much bigger about 350 million years ago because there was much more oxygen in the air (35% of the atmosphere, vs. today's 20%), so their bodies could grow bigger without having to expand their respiratory system, which is basically a bunch of tubes.