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Nephila jurassica

  • 21-04-2011 8:40am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭


    I got this information from the BBC Teletext on TV, so it needs to be verified I think.

    Nephila jurassica is the name given to a giant spider found in Inner Mongolia. It is the largest ever found with a leg span of 15 cm. It lived about 165 m.y.a. and was said to be in the group known as Golden Orb Weavers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I just found this link:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/20/jurassic_spider/

    There seems to be a number of links to this if you google it, including a link to this post that I just made ROFL Could be going around in circles here methinks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    So now the TV series Jurassica shares it's name with a spider...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Just read about this a few hours ago :D Awesome, love spiders! Now we need a giant tarantula to be found! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Indeed, where are all these twenty foot spiders that we see on sci fi films? They hide really well for such big beasties don't they?......

    .... Goes out spider hunting with a big gun.

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Pics of the spider capturing small dinosaurs didn´t waste time to appear :D

    http://hodarinundu.deviantart.com/#/d3eme99


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Hellfire Adam. Some folks have strange imaginations. A spider that catches dino's. Looks like the artist is Japanese, makes me think that a manga version will soon appear.:(


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