If I recall correctly, Anthony Bourdain once ate coconut crab on No Reservations and said it did taste sweet and coconuty.
Speaking of polychaete:
I present the “Bone Eating Snot Flower”: Osedax - Wikipedia
Surely wins the prize for “wierdest bug name ever”. The bug is pretty wierd, too. 
Go to the archive of the RadioLab podcast "Yellow Fluff and other Curious Encounters, scroll down almost to the bottom of the page to the story of Jerry Coyne, who allowed a botfly larva to gestate in his scalp. Again, not much to do with big, but the story is enough to squick anyone out of studying biology. Please do not listen to this story during lunch.
In Toronto, we have a tremendous problem with the urban raccoons, and their incredible tenacity and dexterity in getting into our garbage and compost bins. I’m having a fun time contemplating one of those “Ultimate Battle” kind of shows with a raccoon on one garbage can and one of those coconut crabs on another.
Or imagine the raccoon’s surprise when it lifts the lid only to get a pinch on the snout.
Though the crab has the armour and the weapons, ultimately I’d bet on the racoon. Racoons are scary smart, and have hands.
Speaking of Toronto racoons … we had some visitors from Europe staying with us, who found them incredibly interesting and exotic. The coons were fighting and trashing the neighbour’s garbage cans again, and my wife and I were all “damn coons” but they were glued to the window. They simply couldn’t believe the stuff the racoons were capable of.
In my more paranoid moments, I think the raccoons have infiltrated the waste management department, and the green bins are actually a devious training program for their as yet clandestine army of Big Washing Rats. I suspect Kingdok is at the bottom of all this, and the ‘rat creatures’ in Bone were just a fluffification of the real menace…
Band name.
I kind of like spiders, but this is ridiculous.
If I saw something like that in my house, I would move. I’d leave my family and my belongings behind, and go live in a nice, flat, abandoned parking lot where nothing can sneak up on me.
Ha, how about this from the article: ‘That worm must have obliterated the traps. The bait was full of hooks which he must have just digested.’
I cannot believe I’m back to this thread. I need my head examined…
Now that’s a big spider.
We get Dock Spiders up north which are the size of your hand in terms of legspan, which is quite large enough for me, thank you. Also, they are fast, and can jump. Having one of those suckers scuttle over your bare foot while on the dock was an experience not soon forgotten … but the worst was realizing that a particularly large one was moulting directly over my head while I was “engaged” in the outhouse. It scared me and I scared it, I guess, because it angrily rattled its shedding skin at me.
I read a hilarious story about some poor sap who tried to stomp one to death, only to have it escape by jumping on his foot and scuttling up his pant leg. allegedly, his companions, who did not see the spider, were quite bemused and allarmed when this fellow begain to do an odd sort of spastic dance on the spot, and then apparently attempt to punch himself vigourously in the nuts as the spider reached the height of its journey.
Doesn’t get anybigger…or bluer…
ETA: sorry
Giant, horrible, blood-sucking lice of the sea? (maybe not, bot they look that way) Amazing - I’ve never heard about them before; they look like something Cthulhu would snack on while watching a movie.
What’s taking the scientist so long? I can’t wait to leave this planet! Why is everything in nature bite-y or sting-y or disgusting?
Hey, G0sp3l, check this out! :eek:
GAAAAAAAAA!!! That’s disgusting!
MY EYES! MY EYES ARE MELTING! HOW AM I EVEN ABLE TO TYPE THIS POST WITH EYES THAT ARE MELTING! AAAARRRRGGGHHH!
Exactly what I was talking about 
Why is the navel so large?
Just a hideous malformation of that particular specimen, no doubt.