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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChazJ" data-source="post: 10119" data-attributes="member: 447">I'm not sure how many of you use Yahoo, but there was an article/video about a newly discovered spider in Sri Lanka of the Pokie genus. They call it Poecilotheria rajaei (It was named after a police investigator who showed a local researched the location). It's a tiger spider & is said to be about 8 inches long! As soon as I got done watching the video & reading the article, I had to come on here & ask if anyone had seen the article or knew about it. Here's a link to the article/video itself:<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/newly-discovered-giant-spider-nightmare-inducing-variety-174207130.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/newly-discovered-giant-spider-nightmare-inducing-variety-174207130.html</a></blockquote>