Originally published at: Look at this 16-million-year-old "giant" spider found in Australia | Boing Boing
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Not for very damned long!
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“This fossilized creature would fit in the palm of your hand.“
No. Nooo, it would not get near this hand, let alone fit in it.
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It has only been dead for 11 million years?
Leave it a bit longer, eh?
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I would put that I my bookshelf 
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Go back further in time, and early arachnids were freeeaaakkkyy.
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Dead 16 million years and trapped I still wouldn’t trust the bastard not to try and bite me,
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Money quote from the BBC:
Australia and spiders go together like chips and gravy.
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This fossilized creature would fit in the palm of your hand.
And then it would have bitten you; and then you would have died.
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Needs a banana for scale
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Get the right banana, you get a free spider.
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It’s a giant spider invasion of savings at Menard’s!
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Fit into the palm of your hand? Just one hand?
It’s smaller than several currently existing,“two-hander” spiders of nightmares.
Google “goliath birdeater.” (Or not)
Save big money!
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Australia - where even the rocks are filled with spiders.
The mid-late Palaeozoic is one part of the Earth’s history I won’t be visiting in my nuclear-powered DeLorean. One word - eurypterid:
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fixed.
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“you’ll be relieved to know…this…creature would fit in the palm of your hand”
I am not relieved.
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Hey, but at least we’re safe from the black bears.
drop bears are a different story 
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Like a prawn you can spit roast and feed the whole family.
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