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Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« on: April 05, 2013, 01:48:26 PM »
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Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
1:51pm UK, Thursday 04 April 2013

Scientists have found an enormous, previously unknown, species of venomous spider in a remote Sri Lankan village.

The newly-found spider (Pics: British Tarantula Society/ Ranil Nanayakkara)

The giant tarantula is as big as a human face.

Its legs, which have unique daffodil-yellow markings, span a massive 20cm (eight inches). The arachnid also has a distinctive pink band around its body.

The new species was found in the war-torn north of the South Asian country by scientists from Sri Lanka's Biodiversity Education and Research (BER) organisation.

It has been named Poecilotheria rajaei, in recognition of a senior police officer called Michael Rajakumar Purajah, who guided the research team through a hazardous jungle overrun by civil unrest in order to seek out the spider.

The spider is said to prefer living on old trees

The arachnid had originally been presented to BER three years ago by villagers in Mankulam, who had killed a male specimen.

Scientists immediately realised the dead spider was not like anything they already knew and a group was charged with finding any living relatives.

The living Poecilotheria rajaei were eventually discovered in the former doctor's quarters of the village's hospital.

According to wired.com, Ranil Nanayakkara, the co-founder of BER, said: "They are quite rare.

Check out the photos. Found in a doctor's quarters? Geez Louise!  :panic:

Well, lookee here!
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2013, 03:07:03 PM »
I'm not even going to look! The tarantulas we have here are bad enough. I hate spiders.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2013, 03:40:33 PM »
Quote from: Alpha Mare on April 05, 2013, 03:07:03 PM
I'm not even going to look! The tarantulas we have here are bad enough. I hate spiders.

Oh, go ahead and look. Pictures cannot hurt you.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2013, 04:01:31 PM »
I looked.  Hell NAW!  I don't want nothing to do with that. 

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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2013, 04:42:05 PM »
Big as a human face?  What an odd size comparison. 

Whose human face?  Rosie O'Donnell's or Jane Adams'?   
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2013, 05:25:34 PM »
As a kid in Arizona, I remember throwing stones at a tarantula. It turned around and chased me!
I have never run so fast...
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2013, 05:31:41 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on April 05, 2013, 05:25:34 PM
As a kid in Arizona, I remember throwing stones at a tarantula. It turned around and chased me!
I have never run so fast...

A tarantula made you his bitch? 
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2013, 07:09:07 PM »
Awww...I was hoping that by saying "its as big as a human face" they had actually put it on some guy's face to prove the comparision  :-)
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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2013, 09:36:03 PM »
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2013, 11:18:33 AM »
When I was a kid in Tucson, we'd find a tarantula hole and put both black ants and red ants down it. None of them knew who they should kill!
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2013, 11:51:33 AM »
Quote from: Undies on April 05, 2013, 04:42:05 PM
Big as a human face?  What an odd size comparison.

They know this because the guy who discovered it was summoned by a piercing scream one morning and said, "Whoa! Gary! That thing fits over your entire face!"
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2013, 03:40:47 PM »
What....that spider aint so big....it doesn't even have a health bar like this one...

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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2013, 06:02:38 PM »
Quote from: Undies on April 05, 2013, 05:31:41 PM
A tarantula made you his bitch? 

That's some funny stuff right there, I don't care who you are.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2013, 06:04:56 PM »
Tarantulas like many desert critters seek out warmth at night.

I was on an FTX at FT. Hunter Liggett once.

I woke up with about 3 of them curled up sleeping on my chest.

Not the best way to wake up.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2013, 06:52:08 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on April 06, 2013, 06:04:56 PM
Tarantulas like many desert critters seek out warmth at night.

I was on an FTX at FT. Hunter Liggett once.

I woke up with about 3 of them curled up sleeping on my chest.

Not the best way to wake up.

Oh my....did you jump up screaming?  I would have.

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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2013, 05:50:01 AM »
Quote from: Dori on April 06, 2013, 06:52:08 PM
Oh my....did you jump up screaming?  I would have.



Hell no.  I didn't want to get bit.  I gently removed them and tossed them lightly to the side.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2013, 07:25:05 AM »
We only have these tiny deadly spiders in Florida.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #17 on: April 07, 2013, 07:32:31 AM »
We don't have spiders that huge here. However, by the time that Fall comes around, some of the Wolf Spiders can be like small tarantulas about 4-5 inches leg span.

Our small spiders are the ones to worry about--the brown recluse and black widow.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #18 on: April 07, 2013, 09:35:20 AM »
Quote from: ColonelCarrots on April 07, 2013, 07:25:05 AM
We only have these tiny deadly spiders in Florida.

Is that the Brown Recluse?
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2013, 11:31:58 AM »
Quote from: CG6468 on April 07, 2013, 09:35:20 AM
Is that the Brown Recluse?
One of them.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2013, 11:37:47 AM »
Quote from: ColonelCarrots on April 07, 2013, 11:31:58 AM
One of them.

As I suspected. My aunt and uncle had to move from St. Louis back in the 1970s because their house was loaded with them. All of their belongings were minutely inspected upon their arrival in Illinois (near Chicago).
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2013, 02:05:09 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on April 07, 2013, 11:37:47 AM
As I suspected. My aunt and uncle had to move from St. Louis back in the 1970s because their house was loaded with them. All of their belongings were minutely inspected upon their arrival in Illinois (near Chicago).

I've been bitten by them. I didn't have the large areas of flesh ulcerations (that only occurs in a small %). I did go through a 24 hour period of reaction to the venom thatfelt like I have the flu and fever but I didn't really run a high temperature. I was told that was my body fighting the venom.
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #22 on: April 08, 2013, 01:44:14 PM »
It's a very striking animal, from the pictures.  Far, far away pictures. 

Quote from: Mr Mannn on April 05, 2013, 05:25:34 PM
As a kid in Arizona, I remember throwing stones at a tarantula. It turned around and chased me!
I have never run so fast...
   :panic:

Someone in the comments at the article said,

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10:01 PM on 4/4/2013

"If I had a spider, he would look like Poecilotheria rajaei." ......President Obama
 
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #23 on: April 08, 2013, 07:35:27 PM »
Am I the only one reminded of our recent lost member when the subject of large spiders comes up?
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Re: Tarantula The Size Of A Human Face Discovered
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2013, 10:26:32 PM »
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