In the video above doctoral candidate mike grundler describes the tarantula as about the size of a dinner plate and says that seeing the spider eating a mammal was very unexpected the footage of a spider carrying the opossum off begins at about the 11 second mark.
Dinner plate size spider.
A gigantic spider the size of a dinner plate was calmy caught by the man whose house it had invaded.
The body on that thing is bigger than a baseball said rabosky referring to the spider and adding that if its legs were spread out the spider would be the size of a dinner plate.
A dinner plate sized tarantula with a big appetite preyed on a young opossum during a recent hunt in the amazon rainforest and the horrifying encounter was caught on tape.