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TheMastersNemesis

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2. If You Think Fleas Were Big - Spider As Big As A Cat.
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 01:13 PM
Mar 2012

If you think fleas were big I can remember being at the Denver Museum Of Natural History a few years ago in the Dinosaur exhibit. There was a fossil rock and it had a sign on it with the fossil of a spider as big as a cat. You could only see the main body of it at the top. I looked for that same fossil recently but they had moved it. I wanted to make sure that I had read the sign right. I do know I had seen it a couple of times in years past.

Now if you saw a spider as big as a cat what would you do? Would you run, try to stomp it or just shoot it?. Based on having such a large body it would have been three or four feet across possibly. How big a web would it have? Remember some of the old 1950's sci fi films? And how fast would such a creature be?

Somehow camping out in that era would be a real adventure.

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