To a lot of people in the world, spiders are scary. To those same people, giant spiders are SUPER scary. But how big can spiders actually get, and how big was the largest spider that ever lived?

Video Sources:
Walking with Monsters (2005)
Super Spider (2013)
A New Prehistory (2016)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Life on Our Planet (2023)

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Research Sources:
1) The First Paleozoic Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany.
Dunlop. 2023
2) Atmospheric Oxygen of the Paleozoic
Brand et al. 2021
3) Evolution of Atmospheric O2 Through the Phanerozoic, Revisited
Mills et al. 2023
4) Environmental and Biotic Controls on the Evolutionary History of Insect Body Size
Clapham & Carr. 2012
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