Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon View Post
Hehe, cheers dude; yeah it might be a little over the top but it's from a documentary series that I loved from the mid 00s "BBC: Walking with Monsters" & I thought it might be interesting for people to learn that at one point in time there was a Spider the size of an Adult's head.
(That would be hunting cats if it were alive today... pity )
From Wiki:

In the BBC documentary Walking with Monsters (2005), a Carboniferous period species of Mesothelae was shown as being as large as a human head and shown hunting reptiles the size of today's cats. In the series, it is depicted as living like tarantulas in burrows and either lying in wait for its prey or chasing it through the jungle.

In fact, no spider that large has ever been found; but, at the time the series began production, the sea scorpion Megarachne had been mistakenly interpreted as a spider. The correct classification was not made until Walking With Monsters was well into production, and the giant spider was left in and called "Mesothelae" instead of Megarachne. Megarachne servinei had up until this time been considered the largest known spider.