Of course they did.
A new species of spider, Dolomedes briangreenei, which likes to swim and catch fish, has been discovered in Queensland.
It is named after physicist and World Science Festival co-founder, Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk unveiled the spider to Green in Brisbane today at the opening of the inaugural World Science Festival.
The Brisbane spider is about the size of the palm of a hand—
Just what the world needs- another freaky deaky spider to study.
Good Lord in heaven, why?
God’s way to confound the wiseacres who think they’re smarter than Him.
WOW…a critter not on the .gov dole. Imagine that!
Good thing it wasn’t a fucking snail.
Now if they can only train them to eat Muzzies!
What is it with Austraila and New Zealand’s toxic flora and vicious fauna.
I sometimes dream of visiting Australia and then stories like this bring me back to reality. NOPE!
Having not read the article, and it being Australia, I am willing to bet it is poisonous as well.
We have something similar here, only it’s not a spider (not enough legs). It’s called a water strider: http://tolweb.org/Gerridae/10915
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But they don’t catch fish!
It seems like every time we find a new spider they are doing something that spiders shouldn’t be doing…
Well I think I can safely say that I speak for all of humanity when I ask…
“WTF SPIDERS?
When we find the spider that’s using a bow and arrow we’d better just move to another planet.
I posted this also, and one of the comments was “You know Lord, I love all your amazing creativity, but REALLY?!?”
Australia has some lethal fauna.
Spiders like that are in the creeks and rivers of Ohio.
The fall of Man brought death…. big time
A couple of my sons visited my brother who lives outside of Melbourne and they have a tennis court. chasing stray tennis balls is life threatening, I hear it’s beautiful though,
@SineWavell – We already have leeches that use firearms. There’s a particularly nasty variety found in Chitcago
Australia – full of leftist and nope
Ronterf: Is bernie sanders registering them to vote? Wouldn’t be surprised.
Will it keep keep them from building a 100,000 sq ft mosk?