Mmm, tastes like chicken...

Boing Boing has a link to a story from a PBS documentary of a tarantula which is almost a foot across, which apparently devours chickens. Yikes! Man, I'm not overly arachnaphobiac - I'm not keen on spiders, but I'm not utterly terrified of them either - but this would give you the heebie jeebies! I wonder if this crittur is related to the giant spider of Metebelis III who brought Jon Pertwee's era in Doctor Who to an end? I think this is one spider my cats probably wouldn't want to chase and eat...