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Solifugae - aka. Camel spiders became an Internet sensation during the Iraq war of 2003, when rumors of their bloodthirsty nature began to circulate online (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] Anticorp 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This picture made its way around the internet, thoroughly horrifying most of us.

[–] stoly 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The apparent size, as I understood, was a tick of the camera lens. They aren't really that large.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 7 months ago

Right. They're using lens foreshortening to make it appear much larger. But we didn't know that back then until after furiously googling in terror after seeing that picture.

[–] SkyezOpen 3 points 7 months ago

That picture is two of them together. They do get pretty big though.