A friend got mad the other day because on a recent list of mine (52 animals that would make fantastic sports mascots) I didn't include camel spiders. In fairness, they do have a good name that ...

Recent Internet postings about the photo above of “camel spiders.” It reportedly was taken by a soldier stationed in Iraq. “A colleague sent me this photo of a mysterious desert insect, claiming that ...

You may have come across a 2004 image of an American soldier in Iraq holding two huge “camel spiders,” one of which had clamped its jaws on the other. Huge. As in, they alone were reason enough to get ...

CHAMPAIGN – Col. Mike Rudzinski of Rantoul faced many dangers during his service in Iraq, but one of his least favorite things was the camel spiders. Their bodies can be as big as a man's hand, and he ...

It was all about animals, 150-degree heat and war stories minus the "blood and guts" for a group of Fort Hood Warrior Transition Brigade soldiers during South Belton Middle School's Nov. 9 Take a Vet ...

To science they are known as “solifugae.” They can grow up to one foot in length. Stories about these seemingly mythic creatures started surfacing when U.S. soldiers encountered them in the first Gulf ...