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Author Topic: Giant Cave Spider found in Oregon!  (Read 5068 times)

Eric Blank

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Re: Giant Cave Spider found in Oregon!
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2012, 10:08:21 pm »

Whichever of us happens to be an arachnologist. Goblin spiders are the real deal. They're a nice littlepretty big family of nice little guys.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oonopidae


Here's one other article that at least talks about them.
http://phys.org/news/2010-10-dracula-orchids-goblin-spiders.html
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Re: Giant Cave Spider found in Oregon!
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2012, 03:14:44 am »

I like the Nelson cave spider (Spelungula cavernicola) for it's fitting name, ;)

Also it has a unique way of hunting:
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ResearchAtTePapa/Enquiries/SpidersWeb/What/Pages/Nelsoncave.aspx

It looks quite impressive:
http://www.arkive.org/nelson-cave-spider/spelungula-cavernicola/image-G23067.html
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Re: Giant Cave Spider found in Oregon!
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2012, 04:06:48 am »

Just to add to the 'holy crap' quotient, it has raptor as part of it's name. Even with a picture provided, I can't help but think of a velociraptor-spider hybrid.

camel spiders ;-)
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Re: Giant Cave Spider found in Oregon!
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2012, 11:04:58 am »

Just to add to the 'holy crap' quotient, it has raptor as part of it's name. Even with a picture provided, I can't help but think of a velociraptor-spider hybrid.

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Re: Giant Cave Spider found in Oregon!
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2012, 02:36:56 pm »

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