To take your minds off tonight

Here's something to think about. When I woke up this morning, for some reason I was thinking of spiders. In particular, the size difference, ratio-wise, between the biggest and the smallest species. From tiny little buggers you can hardly see, to those bird-eating f**kers the size of your hand. Is there any other creature (no, not fungi or plants) that has such a wide discrepancy between smallest and biggest, and is yet still recognisably the same animal?

Camel spiders aren't spiders, either.

Posted By: APB on October 21st 2008 at 11:14:12

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To take your minds off tonight (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:14:12
- Here we go. I knew this'd get into the intricacies of taxonomy eventually. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 12:02:15
  - Why ? Is there a phylum about it ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 21, 12:05:34
- Amoeba (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 21, 11:54:42
- cats (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:52:21
- snakes (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:50:06
- birds (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:39:17
  - no chance (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:43:01
    - I still think the spider ratio is greater, mass-wise (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:51:21
      - Jewkun itya ? Hare gew (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 21, 11:59:08
        
        Roight (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 12:01:34
        
        can you stop carping on about this on the web? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 12:12:41
        
        For fucks hake. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 12:15:14
        
        Language, Timobream (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 12:21:57
        
        I think you've just invalided yourself out of contributing to future fish-pun threads. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 12:24:26
        
        No chance. (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 12:27:38
      - I'm a bit worried about how loose we're being on the species-definition thing (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:56:25
        
        That's what I'm talking about (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:59:10
    - The smallest fish can swim up your winkle if you pee in the Amazon. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 11:45:10
    - yebbut fish smell (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:44:24
      - Can you eat their heads? (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:52:29
        
        me personally? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:55:39
      - Not if you clean them with lemon bleach first (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:45:31
        
        really? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:48:41
- Spiders occur in a large range of sizes. The smallest, dwarf spiders of the subfamily Erig (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:34:47
  - I rest my case, m'lud (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:54:39
    - I'd hate that (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 12:03:21
- fish (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:33:46
  - Yes. Good call pants (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:36:57
    - Fish is not a genus (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:56:22
- an elephant when born is smaller than a emu but it grows up to be bigger than a horses (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:24:16
  - there's a island where a horses only comes up to your thigh though. They're like (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:35:04
    - that was a dog in a shellsuit (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:46:56
    - What a load of old pony (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:35:53
- dogs (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:21:09
  - but a tarantula must be at least a hundred times bigger than a money spider (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:24:18
    - i'd say 9 times bigger (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:29:39
  - sometimes they get stuck together backwards. I saw it on a hill in Dunvant, South Wales - (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:22:33
- Football fans from Hong Kong. (General Chat) - camcan, Oct 21, 11:19:36
  - ..they're cute and they're cuddly and they're ready to please (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:20:55
    - aren't little trees japanese? (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Oct 21, 11:54:42
      - tres Japanese we shatem (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 12:21:43
      - Nope they gone done nicked it off the Chinese (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 12:11:11
      - i thought that the last time he posted it (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 12:07:48
    - Racist (n/m) (General Chat) - Holden Caulfield, Oct 21, 11:34:37
- Whales (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:18:56
  - That's John Prescott (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:39:32
  - I'd love to see a one-inch whale (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:22:52
- Arachnid probably big? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:15:52
  - Officer Bob (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:32:28
  - Good grief! (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:17:03

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