apparently these spiders are a problem for the ground personel in iraq, i recon i would er ... i dunno what i would do...run i suppose

Andy

sh%$ thay look like a hole lot of fun

i recon the iraq'i eat them, bbq i spose lol

Andy

They technically aren't spiders.

They are also a bit smaller than they area from that camera angle. They are about the size of a dinner plate.

The yanks are stupid as usual. They pose no threat to large mamals like humans.

They "chase" people only because they are sensitive to direct sunlight and chase people to stay in their shadow...

I can understand the fear tho - the buggers can run at almost 10mph

sent u2u andy

sorry cam all out of spiders lol

aNDY

LOL i want one as a pet but u no wat i want

OMG it looks like something out of Alien....I don't care if it's no threat to humans.....I'm gunna have nightmares now!!!!:cry

thats one big f ing spider

its like out of alian

aahh... I'd run...run far far away... or have to find one massive shoe to squish em with... they are just way too creepy!

yep, that aint pleasant. maybe thats where they're hiding their WMDs:thumb:P

arachnaphobics eat your heart out:P
very scary things they would be

my wife looked up these buggers about two of three month ago and found a short movie footage of them .
they are called Camel spiders

check this out
http://video.clipstream.com/content/c/camel_spiders/

Thats great!, good one

Andy

its amazing how evolution works... survival of the fittest sees a photosensetive spider living in the desert where its ALWAYS sunny, and has no shade.
i think darwin f'ked that one up pretty good.


off the topic sort of... but seeing as we are talking about ugly animals that evolution forgot about,
have u guys seen the naked mole rat?
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2002/3/nakedmolerats.cfm 
its like a wrinkly penis with buck teeth!! Funny stuff!!

Resto 64..I'm not going to look at that footage.....:jesus

I close my eyes as I scroll past the pic up top......just like reading the comments...

Good one baybuscamperkid.....find their nest and you'll find the WMD.....a whole army of these creepy critters mutating as a result of radioactive seepage from rusting nuclear warheads!!!!!

....where else do these things live.....in all middle eastern deserts?....There goes my travel plans for the region........

they freak the shit out of me as well :P

...do they look as bad in the video...sorta tempted to look...but not tonight...gotta sleep...

i'm gathering an army of these little guys and i'm gonna take over the local Ice cream shop and ride around in the Mr whippy vans singing mole-ratty songs. Yeah!

swwwweeeeettt holy moly!!!!

I've just spent 6 month in Iraq and I can tell you, I'm bloody glad I never came across these. Then again I wasn't sleeping in the dirt with the rest of the grunts. I heard some cool stories about spider and scorpian fights though.

if you look in the top right of the pic you can see the guys palm of his hand, so look at the spider size relative to that. So it's bigger than the spiders we get here, but not by huge amounts. And as matt said, not technically spiders. just eight legged freaks.

<-- arachnaphobic, thanks

I'm gonna check under my bed tonight, check that one of those little, or rather not so little freakin monsters aint under there.