Top 20 Largest Spider Species | Explained

The world is full of weird and wonderful creatures, however, there are perhaps none more bone-chillingly wonderful than spiders. These eight-legged prehistoric creatures are found all over the world, they come in many different shapes and sizes, and can be poisonous or harmless. Nevertheless, spiders definitely are not something I, nor you, would want to come in to contact with at any time of day, let alone in a dark alley.
Now you may probably think the biggest spiders to ever walk the Earth lived in prehistoric times because back then everything was bigger, from wolves to sloths to camels.
But here's the truth: giant spiders might have existed in prehistoric times — perhaps we've just never found any evidence of them. But until we do, the world's largest known spiders are actually modern spiders. So today let’s take a look at 20 of the largest spider species known to mankind!

20) Mexican Red-Kneed Tarantula
19) Cerbalus Aravaensis
18) Honduran Curly Hair Tarantula
17) Brazilian Wandering Spider
16) Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula
15) Trinidad chevron tarantula
14) Mysore ornamental tarantula
13) Goliath Pink Toe Tarantula
12) Hercules Baboon Spider
11) Colombian Giant Tarantula
10) Peocilotheria rajaei
9) Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula
8) Giant baboon spider
7) Lampropelma violaceopes (Singapore Blue
6) Brazilian fire-red tarantulas (Lasiodora difficilis)
5) Grammostola anthracina
4) Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater
3) Bahia scarlet (Lasiodora klugi)
2) Giant Huntsman Spider
1) Goliath Birdeater

[chris-zilla]

You got so many things wrong in this video.

[edwinholt]

Why is it that people often confuse venom and poison

[_E_Blondie]

If 'Exotics Lair' watched this video, we would be able to hear and feel his facepalm from all over the world

[kaceydm]

Man you really didn't put much effort into your "research" a lot of misinformation in this video not very factual

[RedSL]

How are you going to mention the Huntsman and not say it's from Australia

That's basically a house spider there

[Michaelkaydee]

Umm... the pink bird eater does not "shoot its hairs to incapacitate its prey" 🙄 ... but rather as a defence mechanism...

[rocketdurham]

This guys voice is like jazz, it just wanders aimlessly going up and down for now real reason

[neilheffernan]

Of course while watching this I start to get itchy

[deeersteverzetsstrijder]

Largest spider is the heteropoda maxima. It's a subspecies of huntsman discovered in 2001 in just a few caves in Laos. It's common that they reach 30cm size of dinner plate

[Firealone]

In what alternate universe does a Salmon Pink Birdeater shoot it's urdicating hairs at it's prey before attacking? SMH it's a defense mechanism for predators.

[Akiraamariee]

Huntsmans are actually most common in australia 🤣 I swear we never get credit around the world 😭🇦🇺🇦🇺

[tsnyder]

As a Tarantula keeper this is so inaccurate I can't finish watching it

[mariodfarias]

How much big tarantulas will you have?

Brazil: yes

(I love brazilian people 🇪🇸❤🇧🇷)

[mixeditfun]

When it comes to length huntsman spider takes the top

[lewis.........]

Came for the spiders, left for the bad info

[Johna]

Who else is watching this trying to get rid of arachnophobia?

[kennardmartin]

Dude singapore is a tiny country at the south of peninsular malaysia wth

[jaredspann-shaw]

So in other words he’s giving us reasons why we need to migrate to mars...

[beverlybarnes]

I used live in out back Australia. The 12" huntsman spider was everywhere. Australia was not even mentioned for any of these spiders. And Australia is full of giant spiders! Look on the side of any building when you get there and they'll be 3 or 4 huntsmens, just sitting there waiting for something to come by to eat. And they are completely harmless. Kids like playing with them.🕷🕷🕷

[thestoneddog]

I have several of these in my collection plan to add more.