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avatar Spider Version of Bigfoot Emerges from Caves in the Pacific Northwest
August 17, 2012 10:15AM
ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2012) — The forests of the coastal regions from California to British Columbia are renowned for their unique and ancient animals and plants, such as coast redwoods, tailed frogs, mountain beavers and the legendary Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch). Whereas Bigfoot is probably just fiction, a huge, newly discovered spider is very real. Trogloraptor (or "cave robber"winking smiley is named for its cave home and spectacular, elongate claws. It is a spider so evolutionarily special that it represents not only a new genus and species, but also a new family (Trogloraptoridae). Even for the species-rich insects and arachnids, to discover a new, previously unknown family is an historic moment.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120817092604.htm
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avatar Re: Spider Version of Bigfoot Emerges from Caves in the Pacific Northwest
August 17, 2012 06:35PM
Interesting stuctures on the pedipalps. Large sensors that could detect air movement?
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