» GIANT CAMEL SPIDER

The so called "Giant Camel Spider" is the arachnid solifugae which adult size is never bigger than the hand of a man.

Perhaps we would never --or rarely-- have heard of such a creature if it was not because of the tales and photos the United States Servicemen in the Persian Gulf War and afterwards the Iraq War carried back home.

Yes, the Camel Spider is indeed a large creature, but absolutely not the size of a frisbee or dinner dish. Actually, it seldom grows bigger than 5 inches leg-span. It cannot jump over one feet high, and does not eat camel's stomachs --as the legend says-- but wait under dead camel's body shadow for insects and other animals who do feed upon rotting meat.