Deadly Spiders Spark Fear, Death in India Mysterious thumb-sized spiders rampage through northeast India leaving two dead and several others with painfully swollen bites. “It looks like a new species. We haven’t been able to identify it,” said ecologist L.R. Saikia of India’s Dibrugarh University in the Associated Press. keep reading Image: Strdel/AFP/Getty Images - Professor Ratul Rajkhowa of the Department of Zoology of Cotton College holds a dead spider that was the alleged species that killed two people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on June 4, 2012.

Deadly Spiders Spark Fear, Death in India

Mysterious thumb-sized spiders rampage through northeast India leaving two dead and several others with painfully swollen bites.

“It looks like a new species. We haven’t been able to identify it,” said ecologist L.R. Saikia of India’s Dibrugarh University in the Associated Press.

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Image: Strdel/AFP/Getty Images - Professor Ratul Rajkhowa of the Department of Zoology of Cotton College holds a dead spider that was the alleged species that killed two people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on June 4, 2012.

Source: news.discovery.com

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    Holy Fuck. This is horrifying but also ridiculously cool.
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