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Tarantula the size of a human face discovered in Sri Lanka

Sky News: A new species of venomous spider as big as a human face has been discovered in Sri Lanka.

The legs of the giant tarantula, which have unique daffodil-yellow markings, span a massive 20cm (eight inches). The arachnid also has a distinctive pink band around its body.

According to wired.com, Ranil Nanayakkara, the co-founder of BER, said: “They are quite rare.

In other reports Mr Nanayakkara is quoted as saying none of the tarantulas found in Sri Lanka have bites that are deadly to humans. However, the Poecilotheria rajaei would be able to kill animals as large as mice, lizards and small birds and snakes.

Photo: The newly-discovered spider (British Tarantula Society/ Ranil Nanayakkara)

sciencechicks:

Florence B. Seibert (1897 – 1991) was an American biochemist known for isolating a pure form of tuberculin used in the standard TB test. She is a member of the U.S. National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, Seibert is said to have read biographies of famous scientists as a teenager which inspired her interest in science. As a child she contracted polio which left her walking with a limp, though the disability did not interfere with her life or work.

Seibert did her undergraduate work at Goucher College and earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Yale University. At Yale she studied the intravenous injection of milk proteins under the direction of Lafayette Mendel. She developed a method to prevent these proteins from being contaminated with bacteria.

Seibert served as an instructor in pathology from 1924-28 at the University of Chicago and was hired as an assistant professor in biochemistry in 1928. At the University of Chicaco she developed a method for purifying the crystalline tuberculin derivative under the supervision of Esmond R. Long. This purified protein derivative (PPD) was used in the standard TB test. The previous tuberculin derivative, Koch’s substance, had produced false negative results in tuberculosis tests since the 1890s because of impurities in the material.

In 1932, she became assistant professor in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania at the Henry Phipps Institute and rose through the ranks to full professor and professor emeritus in 1959, when she retired.

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chuubunnie:

rubyetc:

good evenin’, here are some serious thoughts on long hair

Always getting my hair caught on something..

I always get it stuck in the car door omg

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likeafieldmouse:

Mark Tipple - The Underwater Project (2010-12)

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vincentvangaylord:

timeandspaceismything:

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grandkanye:

imagine if giraffes had 2 legs

That just looks like the front view of a giraffe.

oh well excuse me princess do u need a fuckin sideview of it prancing through nature

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claudiagray:

How many years before I can vote for this child? 

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missinglinc:

That last gif slayed my entire soul.

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