Scandal At The Science Lab: Where Is The Brazilian Wandering Spider?
20 March 2009, 4:15 PM. By Cindy Casares
The identity of a spider found at Whole Foods in Tulsa, Oklahoma Tuesday is being disputed and the scientist who ID’d it says he doesn’t have the body anymore. We read all about how evil scientists can get when publicity is involved in A Short History Of Everything. Bitches be harder than Perez on LiLo.
University of Tulsa animal facilities manager Terry Childs originally identified the spider as a Brazilian wandering spider–the world’s most deadly. But, Barry Downer, the curator of aquariums and herpetology at the Tulsa Zoo says video and photos he’s seen of the spider lead him to believe that it was a Huntsman spider, which is harmless to humans. Let’s take a look at a still of the spider found at Whole Foods next to a stock image of a Brazilian wandering spider and a Huntsman spider.
Now here’s where it gets weird: Childs said Wednesday that he destroyed the spider at his supervisors request for safety reasons. “It doesn’t make any sense to me why it wouldn’t be saved,” [Downer] told the Associated Press. We concur. Local CW affiliate KWBT reported, on the day the spider was found, that it would likely be sent to another university for further study. And yesterday, a University of Tulsa school spokesman said the university is looking into how and why the spider was destroyed.
Did Childs destroy the spider because he realized he made an error? Or, worse, is he covering up a deliberate lie? Or does he still have the spider and he’s just being a bitch? Any way you slice it, this shit is way more interesting than covering the latest brown person between Madge’s legs.
Not so deadly? Chance Tulsa spider misidentified 6 hours ago [AP]
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Spider are disgusting. Last year we were on our usual saturday morning house cleaning and we decided to clean under the sofa and found the half-eaten remains of a tarantula. The abdomen and 6 legs were eaten but the head and a couple legs remained. Our cat is hardcore. That shook us up and damned if we can’t shake the nightly “spider check” before we get in bed.
I bet Childs really gave the spider to Jackie Guerra to put under Cindy’s bed.
Watch out Cindy!!