{"id":3264,"date":"2010-10-12T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:48:14","slug":"giant-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/giant-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn’t Want to Run into this Giant Spider!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers recently discovered a new, giant golden orb weaver spider from Africa and Madagascar. But turns out only the females are giants. They have a body length of 1.5 inches<\/strong> (3.8 centimetres) and a leg span of 4-5 inches<\/strong> (10-12 centimetres). Yikes!<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/10\/091020203418.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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A new giant golden orb weaver spider has been discovered and there is something very interesting about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[201,117,57,104],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-omg_animals","category-omg-facts","category-all","tag-discovery","tag-largest","tag-spider","tag-united-nations"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t