New spider discovered. It's "as big as your face"

A new species of venomous tarantula has been discovered on the island nation of Sri Lanka, and it's as big as your face. Named Poecilotheria rajaei, the giant spider measures 20 centimeters and packs a venomous punch capable of killing rodents, birds, and snakes.

So as not to freak out the arachnaphobes, I wont post a pic......... but here's a vid:

I did a search and found no threads on this! Nothing! As soon as I post it, I see the other thread!
Mods, feel free to remove this thread.

reply to post by ColeYounger

I saw a thread on the subject yesterday, but not the video. If this gets closed down could you take the video to that thread? Thanks.

The spider looks very nice on the video, a soft gray color, meandering along on a stroll, just like a family dog.

Man, I hate spiders and scorpions and snakes but most of all I hate bees, thats one of my only true phobias

reply to post by TriForce

This spider likely hates bees too. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

saw this last night

very cool discovery. in this months national geographic they estimate 500,000 species of spider are yet to be discovered (100,000 known)

wonder if there is a super species out there that can jump and has precognition

Originally posted by TriForce
Man, I hate spiders and scorpions and snakes but most of all I hate bees, thats one of my only true phobias

The only thing I'm really terrified of is Obi-Wan from the Star Wars movies.

I have Obi-Wan Kenobi phobia!

reply to post by ColeYounger


This spider likely hates Obi-Wan Kenobi too. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And bees.

Originally posted by Aleister
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The spider looks very nice on the video, a soft gray color, meandering along on a stroll, just like a family dog.

It looks to be as large as some family dogs too lol. My girlfriend would freak if she saw that thing lol she is terrified of spiders

Originally posted by ColeYounger
I did a search and found no threads on this! Nothing! As soon as I post it, I see the other thread!

Thank you the "new powerful ATS search engine"...
Waste of money & time, imo.

On the vid:
it would be nice to have some reference as to the size of that beast.
Personally, I think it's lovely! Just look at the smooth way that it moves, every step carefully calculated...
Awesome!

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