Psst...Hey, Martok!

[besilarius]

https://www.facebook.com/KristinSchrotOfficial/videos/873359209425340/?fref=nf

[Martok]

What a douchebag.  I'd have split his head open. 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Just hit him with your weave.

[bayonetbrant]

[Martok]

I gotta admit, I did laugh at that one.  Well done, chief.  :P 

[steve58]

Martok, any chance you are a Johnny Cash fan??  Say hello to Aphonopelma johnnycashi.  He'll be visiting you tonight...in your dreams.  >:D

[Martok]

If I ever have a spider species named after me once I'm gone, I'm going to come back to life just to rectify that.  And I'm going to be pissed.   

[Staggerwing]

If I ever have a spider species named after me once I'm gone, I'm going to come back to life just to rectify that.  And I'm going to be pissed. 

Especially if you came back as a spider.

[OJsDad]

 A Black Widow at that!

[Staggerwing]

Dating would indeed be a trifle awkward.

[Martok]

You're not even guaranteed to get laid before you get eaten.  :( 

[LongBlade]

If you have an erection lasting more than 99 million years, you might be a spider...

That's how long the penis of a newly discovered arachnid fossil has been standing at attention. The harvestman, a spider relative also known as a daddy longlegs, was encased in amber during the Cretaceous in what is now Myanmar. Its distinctive penis, with a heart-shaped tip and a bit of a twist at the end, was erect at the time.

The new harvestman specimen belongs to an ancient species called Halitherses grimaldii. A private collector sent it to Dunlop and his colleagues. Harvestman fossils are rare — only 38 have ever been found, the researchers wrote in their new paper — but harvestman genitals are even more elusive. This is the first amber specimen visibly preserving the structure of the penis, Dunlop told Live Science in an email.

"These penis details (shape, form of the tip, etc.) are very important for saying where this amber species fits in the harvestman family tree," he said. "In fact, we couldn't find an exact match in terms of penis shape with any living species."

As a result, the researchers propose that the spider belonged to a previously unknown (and now extinct) family of harvestmen. The team is investigating several other new species found in Burmese amber, but none of those are preserved with visible genitals, Dunlop said.

Pictures and much more than you ever thought you wanted to know about the topic can be found through the link below:

source: http://www.livescience.com/53583-daddy-longlegs-fossil-with-erect-penis.html

[JasonPratt]

Note that instead of saying, "Everything about this harvestman is the same as 99 million years later, except for the shape of one part, and even that's mostly the same, so we might consider this simply a minor deformity or maybe even caused by having been trapped in amber," they've decided to propose this is a previously unknown whole species of harvestman as a result of this one evident difference.

And not content with that, they're going to propose that the species is extinct now, when the only difference from extant harvestmen species is something that would be rarely ever even noticed except in dissected specimens.

{smh}

[Staggerwing]

Man, don't be hating' on the Taxonomists- they got kids to feed and clothe just like the rest of us. A little make-work never hurt anyone- look at any Highway Department ever.

[MetalDog]

I think we are all truly in deep shit!  Spiders are starting to kill snakes!!  And a daddy long legs to boot!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiny-spider-takes-deadly-brown-065221730.html