decadentrebelM to Creepy WikipediaEnglish · 2 years agoSolifugae - aka. Camel spiders became an Internet sensation during the Iraq war of 2003, when rumors of their bloodthirsty nature began to circulate onlineen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down15
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkSolifugae - aka. Camel spiders became an Internet sensation during the Iraq war of 2003, when rumors of their bloodthirsty nature began to circulate onlineen.wikipedia.orgdecadentrebelM to Creepy WikipediaEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareAnticorpdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 years agoThis picture made its way around the internet, thoroughly horrifying most of us.
minus-squarestolylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThe apparent size, as I understood, was a tick of the camera lens. They aren’t really that large.
minus-squareAnticorpdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoRight. They’re using lens foreshortening to make it appear much larger. But we didn’t know that back then until after furiously googling in terror after seeing that picture.
minus-squareSkyezOpenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThat picture is two of them together. They do get pretty big though.
This picture made its way around the internet, thoroughly horrifying most of us.
The apparent size, as I understood, was a tick of the camera lens. They aren’t really that large.
Right. They’re using lens foreshortening to make it appear much larger. But we didn’t know that back then until after furiously googling in terror after seeing that picture.
That picture is two of them together. They do get pretty big though.