No little or Brevitt today

[flammableBen]

I'm sure our giant isopod friends are relieved that the Dysdera crocata ("woodlouse hunter") didn't go down a similar evolutionary path of Deep-sea gigantism. Imagine a big fuck of aquatic one of these hunting you down.

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/dysdera2.jpg

Do you get aquatic spiders? It's not something I've ever really thought about.

[axs]

http://tiger.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/sea_spider.jpg

[Reg Smeeton]

Not sure about aquatic spiders, but you do get air-borne spiders, which can travel vast distances....by making kite tail type structures from their threads.....they can go up to the stratosphere....here though they can become food for swifts, who can fly at 10,000 ft.

  I've always thought it good news that chitin, the material from which arthrpods are composed, doesn't allow the buggers to get to big.

[Reg Smeeton]

http://tiger.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/sea_spider.jpg

 I always say you learn something new every day....you going to have one in your fish tank?

[figgis]

my uncle had a giant gourami in his fish tank. its the only house ive ever been in with a guard fish.

[axs]

nah, they're marine animals, don't think the fish would like the salt.

[pauld]

you guys!

so to summarise this thread, no-one knows anything, but everyone likes to think that they do.

You see you say that but I think we're a lot closer to the truth on the giant aquatic woodlice-relative issue.

[neville w]

you guys!

so to summarise this thread, no-one knows anything, but everyone likes to think that they do.

You see you say that but I think we're a lot closer to the truth on the giant aquatic woodlice-relative issue.

Ear wig go again.