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Giant Venomous Extinct Arachnid- Found surviving in Australia

Giant Venomous Extinct Arachnid- Found surviving in Australia
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Australia is a place of many unusual species. One of these happen to be the dreaded, little known and previously thought to be extinct species of venomous arachnid
~Octa-spina'a Aurolenta-tis.

This species which was thought to have become extinct in the early 1980's, has been re-discovered at this local Australian address.

Scientists are baffled as to how the event has come to place.
One scientist is quoted as saying:
"The webs architecture is designed to lure its prey, yet providing the perfect ambush environment for the spider. The bulging egg sack within, indicates that it is indeed a female with young. "

Not only is its emergence considered a miracle of nature, the tunnel phenomenon has never before been witnessed by anyone whom has survived to tell the tale.

Happy Halloween from Down Under!
32 comments
Feb 18, 2012. 12:56 PMbroken board says:
koala's
Feb 18, 2012. 12:55 PMbroken board says:
not everything in Australia wants to kill you but you do have to watch out for the drop bears. Ask the lads in the USA army who visit us, so funny to see them scouting through scrub land pointing their weapons sky ward looking for a drop bear to get em. Drop bears=

Down here we use the states as a source of un known as you have here

Very nice
Nov 21, 2011. 8:58 PMLivStoleYourPie says:
Wheres the giant spider!?!
Aug 16, 2011. 8:35 AMwillow.narwhal says:
Maaaan! This got me all excited. My first thought was Shelob.. then the Forbidden Grove.. I was onto Aragog before I realized this was fake D:
Nov 7, 2010. 5:14 AMyum399 says:
I was all like WAO that's pretty cool. I believed it up until the point where on that "Egg Sack" there were those baby spiders, clearly to me were made of plastic because they all stood the same way, none were curled up or anything.
Oct 4, 2009. 10:09 AMbluesquirrel says:
Oh wow; this is an excellent job! How many things of "web cotton" did you have to use for this much of a web? O:
Aug 9, 2010. 6:03 PMarctic_squirrel says:
lol i was half convinced for a second. nice name by the way. =D
Aug 7, 2010. 7:25 AMGunther45 says:
LOL, I would definitely not venture anywhere near there. I have had venomous snakes as pets , scorpions as pets, but spiders bug me out! Great deterrent for trespassers. Although,the fact that is Australia would make me wonder what kind of spider made this. I don't know if it would work in the states as much, but I still wouldn't go there. Nice Job!
Aug 4, 2010. 5:33 PMyourworstnightmare says:
how long did it take to clean up
Mar 28, 2010. 2:36 PMchihuahualover112 says:
 i literally thought that there was some sort of giant man-eating spider in front of someone's house. i'm not even joking. ugh, you could've given us some sort of clue that you did that yourself. either way, it's totally believable, since i believed it. well, i guess i'm not that hard to fool, but good job.
Mar 27, 2010. 4:53 PMdragonfathom says:
Because it's in Australia, where everything will want to kill you, it looks much more realistic. I'm pretty sure I've seen something like this with the spider in it at the Thursday Tea-Tree Plantation, but theirs was made of metal.
Dec 4, 2008. 8:38 PMduck-lemon says:
You make me smile, not in a creepy way though.
Oct 31, 2008. 9:27 PMLithium Rain says:
So not funny! I thought this was real when I clicked on it. :'(
Nov 1, 2008. 1:56 PMLithium Rain says:
No, I'm scared of spiders...
Nov 18, 2008. 2:29 PM=SMART= says:
Hahaha me to ! come to think of it why did we click it in the first place !!!
Oct 30, 2008. 9:32 AMfinfan7 says:
Tango down! That is an incredible piece of work. You got it looking almost totally natural. They should grey that web material though. Whenever I see actual large webs they seem a little bit... dirty? That gives me an idea.
Oct 30, 2008. 6:01 PMfinfan7 says:
Excellent. Should look nice and spooky in the dark hours.
Oct 29, 2008. 6:29 AMKiteman says:
Very impressive - what did you use to make the webs?
Oct 29, 2008. 7:19 AMKiteman says:
It's excellent - it looks like the set of an old Tarzan movie.
Oct 29, 2008. 6:30 AMkillerjackalope says:
Looks like cotton stuff, we used it one year to great effect.
Oct 29, 2008. 12:36 PMvernors says:
at first i thought that there was a Giant Venomous Extinct Arachnid- Found surviving in Australia but just to have my hopes lost. lol. it looks good by the way.

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