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Giant Spider, Unknown arthropod
Inverteb rate of Central Africa and Australasia. Physical description: Huge spider. Distribution: Democratic Republic of the Congo; Papua New Guinea. Significant sightings: R. K. Lloyd and his wife were motoring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1938 when they
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saw a large object crossing the trail in front of them. At first, they thought it was a cat or a monkey, but they soon realized it was a spider with legs nearly 3 feet long ...
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is another fringe source which relays a secondhand account via another crypozoologist, with no mention of the J'ba fofi name. 17:03, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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