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Topic started on 15-12-2008 @ 09:38 AM by Frogs

I just found this article today.

Many new species in the Mekong

Very cool stuff.

Among the highlights they've found: a rat thought to be extinct 11mil years, millipeides that are pink and laced with cyanide and a spider the size of a dinner plate.

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 09:39 AM by Yoda411

I wish they would have posted a picture for the "spider the size of a big plate".

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 09:42 AM by Frogs

I know.

It was the first thing I went searching for after posting. I googled the scientific name and came up with this...

Heteropda

Doesn't look as big as the article led me to think. But, I still wouldn't want to meet one.

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reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 09:43 AM by Odins Advocate

This is great,

thanks for that, think this will be the highlight read for my day... I love it when people show us that there are so many things in the world yet to be discovered

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 09:53 AM by warrenb

how long before all those species end up on a dinner plate?

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 09:54 AM by Yoda411

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Still a good one! Thanks for posting the picture, much appreciation.

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 09:58 AM by Anti - Government

Yep alot more of this world yet to be discovered

No one liner here

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 10:10 AM by nixie_nox

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The goliath spider in the Amazon is the size of a dinner plate, but that includes legs. Still 10 on the creepy scale.

In fact that spider they used in the movie Arachnophobia was a Goliath spider, that was a real spider. When they were not shooting, they had to throw a cauldron over it to keep it in place.

I hope those actors got a decent wage, LOL.

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 10:14 AM by nixie_nox

It was thought to have been extinct for 11 million years but a researcher spotted the corpse of one on sale in a food market in Laos in 2005.

Lets hope that wasn't the last one!!

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 10:29 AM by wayno

I dunno about that spider. I had a couple in my room while in the jungle area (Tortuguero) of Costa Rica that looked every bit as big. In fact one of them had a body that was definitely bigger than the one in the picture.
Can't wait to see more pics when they come out.

reply posted on 15-12-2008 @ 11:11 AM by cluas

Originally posted by Yoda411
I wish they would have posted a picture for the "spider the size of a big plate".

the pics are there. right next to the article, guess you didnt see

reply posted on 17-12-2008 @ 01:26 AM by MegaBears

That must be one small dinner plate....

reply posted on 17-12-2008 @ 02:11 PM by blupblup

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Also, another pic of it here.

Looks mean

reply posted on 17-12-2008 @ 02:17 PM by theindependentjournal

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I don't like the word species, i should be KIND, a new kind of spider, rat and centipede cause they aren't a KIND we have never seen before...

Cool post, they got some fish we aint classified in their river there too, with the worlds largest catfish. The catfish get over 500 lbs...

reply posted on 17-12-2008 @ 03:00 PM by testrat

Unfortunately for the Mekong Delta and all its critters it may be too late for them. So many rare animals like the freshwater dolphin and Mekong catfish are border line on extinction.

reply posted on 18-12-2008 @ 01:19 PM by fritzM

I saw this on a news web site. Very cool. I really like that dragon millipede. I didn't think that color existed in the natural world.

I just hope that we don't decide that would be a great place to develop into condos. That would spell the end of all those species.

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