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Camel spiders aren’t venomous and don’t really go after humans, but that have been known to chase after them (top speed 10 mph), which is pretty scary. Here's a tidbit from National Geographic: ...
The largest camel spider has a leg span of around 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters), which is big for a spider, but it's not horror movie territory, and they seem to take little to no ...
The camel spiders star in a new publication designed to help researchers better study the Solifugae order. Of course, the camel spider's huge jaws, or chelicerae, also set it apart from its spider ...
It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's ...
A spider found by an Ogden, Utah, woman last week created a stir when initial stories suggested it was a camel spider: a scary-looking, powerfully jawed critter that news reports said was not ...
Did a scary-looking camel spider cause a Dutch F-16 to crash in Afghanistan? Maybe, maybe not, but a panel has concluded that might be the most plausible cause what is otherwise an inexplicable ...
None of these things are any truer-to-life than the behaviors of camel spiders depicted in the 2011 horror movie Camel Spiders, a lazily titled film if I've ever heard one. But it's true that ...
Recent Internet postings about the photo above of “camel spiders.” It reportedly was taken by a soldier stationed in Iraq. “A colleague sent me this photo of a mysterious desert insect ...