Researchers Come Across Giant Spider in Southwest Oregon

Quite recently, researchers investigating the biodiversity found in the caves in southwest Oregon came across a new species of spiders whom they argue to be the arachnid version of Bigfoot.

Thus, the insect's width measures about four centimeters when its legs are extended, and its claws stand as proof that the spider is indeed a note-worthy predator, although nobody got to see it 'in action' just yet.

Apparently, this particular insect is so special that, after naming it the “Trogloraptor” (which roughly translates as “cave robbber”), the scientists who found him and those who caught a closer look at it had to form a whole new family of insects for it: Trogloraptoridae.

Interestingly enough, it seems that the finding of this spider will make it necessary for biologists to reconsider some of their views regarding the ways in which such insects evolved over the years, as the Trogloraptor displays some very peculiar features from an anatomic standpoint.