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PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:59 pm
by TerryB
Scientists have found an enormous, previously unknown, species of venomous spider in a remote Sri Lankan village
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 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.
The website described the tarantula as "colourful, fast and venomous".
The species is said to be related to a class of South American tarantula that includes the Goliath bird-eater, one of the world's largest spiders.
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:10 pm
by Andy83
Get some and let 'em loose on the muslims.
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:56 pm
by Bob Wildes
Andy79 wrote:Get some and let 'em loose on the muslims.
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Yep. Anything that will get those goat fuckers to their imagined 72 virgin
pipe dream is most welcome.
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:11 am
by Andy83
It occurred to me just yesterday that whether Obama realizes it or not he's standing by and letting those goat fuckers in Syria continue sending thousands and thousands of them to their heaven. It's the right thing to do!
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:46 am
by Protobuilder
It took four entire posts to have this be about Obama?
This place is seriously slipping.
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:31 am
by DrDonkeyLove
Terry B. wrote:It took four entire posts to have this be about Obama?
This place is seriously slipping.
The spider reminded me of Obama from the second I saw it but I didn't want to say anything because I thought it looked obsessive. I think it was the extra long spindly legs.
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:31 am
by Holeyfraggaroley
Reminded me of that mosquito bug on that guys face in "History of the World". EIther way it would get a girlie squeak out of me.
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:38 am
by The Crawdaddy
Re: PREPARE TO DIE
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:26 am
by vern
