"This Ferocious Arachnid Is Death Wrapped in Mystery" Topic

"You may have come across a 2004 image of an American soldier in Iraq holding two huge "camel spiders," one of which had clamped its jaws on the other. Huge. As in, they alone were reason enough to get out of Iraq. Now, they aren't really spiders, and through a trick of perspective (they're just close to the camera) they look way bigger than they really are. Don't get me wrong, the strange, hairy camel spiders do grow to six inches long—not too shabby. But size is far from the most fascinating thing about these beasts.

Camel spiders are arachnids like true spiders, but they belong to a different order, solifugae. (Depending on who you ask, camel spiders are so-called because some species have humps on their backs or because of the myth that they eat camel stomachs.)…"
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Amicalement
Armand

I'm a fan of fun sex. But watching "weird sex" is not part of my fascination. No thank you!

Hopefully I will never, ever see one of these things in my lifetime. They're big enough that I would without hesitation draw my Glock and obliterate the thing. Heh, assuming I could even hit it before it started moving, that is….

I say we take off and nuke it from orbit…the only way to be sure.