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I wonder if it ate hobbits.

Anyways, I hate spiders. Really. I'm so glad those aren't around today.

OMG! Imagine does stuff on your bathroom walls.

Nice find thanks for sharing. Megarachne was once thought to be the largest spider at 33.9cm but a reexamination of it in 2005 put it in a different family.

Theraphosa blondi is an actual birdspider with a legspan of up to 30cm and a thorax the size of a ping-pong ball... I love birdpsiders

That fossil is beautiful though, I wish I'd find something like that one day.

Yeah, I read this on Yahoo! news the other day. Interesting to me, though, was that it is very close in size to a few orb weaver spider species still in existence, some of which even have larger bodies than this specimen! I certainly wouldn't be too happy about walking into the net of a spider that large, to be sure!

By friendly suggestion of Mage, I am turning this into a thread to discuss interesting fossils, or animals that are linked to fossils into todays world.

Don't try to make this a religion thread. Please. I will get angry.

Okay, because this is now fossils in general.

Haven't scientists found a frozen baby mammoth somewhere in Russia or something?

Haven't scientists found a frozen baby mammoth somewhere in Russia or something?

I wonder if it ate hobbits.

whoa, now thats a spider.

Has anyone ever heard of the Hadrosaur mummy? It's skin and internal organs were fossilized.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-dino-mummy.html

A very nice fossil is the one from microraptor, you can clearly see quite a lot of feathers:

A very nice fossil is the one from microraptor, you can clearly see quite a lot of feathers:

Really? I didn't hear about that fraud.. but I know Microraptor really existed (there are real fossils), and is not the only small feathered raptor that has been found anyway. But thanks for the note.

If people read the article they would have found out that it was a female from China. Anyways its offspring or whatever you want to call them (perhaps next generations) is the golden orb weavers.

Yeah big huh...