Arachnoextinction Chapter 4: Chapter Four - Dino-Spiders?

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"You're supposed to be bringing the mammoth back to life, not whatever this is," I said with a frown. This was why I made my visits, to keep the scientists from being too Dr. Frankenstein-ish. "Don't worry, this was a discovery and had minimal cost. They were brought here to me by a friend, and this could be the biggest discovery of our lifetime." "Alright, what the hell are these?" I said. I was getting a serious evil genius vibe from Dr. Kale. "Tell me, Dr. Gale, do you like spiders?" he said with a twisted smile. "I like them dead," I said. "Don't tell me...." "Yes!" Dr. Kale said, straightening up. "Prehistoric spider eggs have been discovered. Perfectly preserved!" "Holy shit, these are freaking enormous," I said and looked at the eggs with a newfound respect. A wave of fresh nerves and fear washed over me. Despite the eggs sitting there doing nothing, the way they were sitting there doing nothing came across as menacing. The eggs stared at me just as hard as I stared at them. I was losing a staring contest to eggs. I was not a coward at all. But, these eggs made me feel a little like one. My wife would probably piss herself laughing at this situation, or at my face as I looked upon these stupid eggs. "How old?" I asked him, hoping that moving the conversation forward would help me lose this feeling of impending doom. "Post-Jurassic Era, but we’re having a hard time pinning down an exact time frame. But when these incredible spider species lived, they were the predominant predator on Earth. Nothing in their time came even close in terms of deadliness and ferocity. In fact, from what little information that we've been able to obtain, they literally ate themselves extinct. They reproduced so rapidly and were such vicious predators that they killed everything they used for food; they either were forced to kill each other or starve." Dr. Kale spoke with so much enthusiasm it was hard not to be excited by his words, but they were still spiders. So, no thanks. “Who discovered them?” I asked Dr. Kale. “One of my friends, her name is Dr. Caitlyn Rose. She was leading a group of scientists who were digging through glaciers and found these eggs preserved by the ice. She absolutely destroyed her knee finding these puppies. She may never be able to do field work again. She has the most perfect ass you could ever imagine. Like a perfectly fluffed pillow,” he said. “Is that entirely necessary?” I asked him, a little taken aback by his description of his ‘friend’. “Of course! It’s completely relevant. I think it’s important to know where the eggs were discovered,” he said with a shrug. “Wasn’t referring to the eggs,” I said. “Well you should be! This discovery is beyond remarkable!” he half-yelled. “Were these some sort of dino-spiders?” I asked after I had pushed his butt remark out of my mind. “Dino-spiders? Pssh, don’t be…ridiculous,” he said as his voice trailed off and deep sadness fell over his face. “Do you wish you had thought of ‘dino-spiders’ first?” I said. “Yes,” he said, pouting. "Were they venomous?" I asked to get him back on track. "Oh, heavens, yes, more so than any species alive today. Their venom sacs were as large as your head. We theorize that they could have even spat their venom a couple hundred feet or so." "Balls. How big were these bastards?" I said and inched away from the eggs. I had a bad feeling about these things. Just looking at the eggs made my stomach churn. "Around the size of a mid-size sedan," Dr. Kale said in a dramatic whisper. "Could you imagine if these babies were alive today?" My mind took me to an image of a cowboy riding a giant spider around in the Old West, because that's the obvious thing to imagine in this situation. "Are these eggs...salvageable?" I asked him, shaking the awesome cowboy out of my mind. "I don't believe so," he said with a disappointed look. "We've done a few experiments within budget to see if we could get the eggs to hatch, but it was a one in a billion shot. If not wor