My wife sent me this picture and these are REAL! I've never been a big spider fan, not that I am to the point of being and Arachnophobe but, these give me the creeps!

Here is also a link to some video of one of them. If, there were an RX-8 vs. Camel Spiders (also called wind scorpions though not related to scorpions) this spider would win if the 8 was governed under 10 mph.

http://www.ecologicproductions.com/video_projects/TSCK/endangered/TSCK_spider.html

Another pic though not as good...

They're not true spiders, and they're not venomous:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp
http://boingboing.net/2004/04/09/the_truth_about_came.html
http://www.arabianwildlife.com/nature/insect/ins09.html
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcamelspider.html

"They're technically not spiders but solifugae (although, like spiders, they belong to the class Arachnida). " acording to the first link.

They have 10 legs, not 8, I should have counted them first.

I don't care if they aren't spiders, they are one of the ugliest things I would ever want to meet up with...

Thats fake ,it was an april fools joke... They're real , jsut dont get that big..

"Urban legends about the camel spider (properly termed a solpugid or solifugid) are as old as the proverbial hills, but they made a huge resurgence when vectored by American troops in Kuwait during Desert Storm. They're not quite as big as your hand (unless you're a five-year-old), and very shy and secretive. They do like to hide in the shadows, and they do run
very, very quickly for a critter (they can reach about 10 MPH, the fastest known non-flying arthropod). They make no noise whatsoever, they have no venom whatsoever, and they do not eat flesh--they eat small desert arthropods like crickets and pillbugs. The rumors of their attacking camels,
or crawling onto sleeping GIs' faces, apparently stem from one of two things, both of which may be true to some extent: (1) they may use hair to line their burrow when they are about to lay a batch of eggs, said hair being clipped from dead camels or other dead mammals (and a sleeping GI is not much different), and/or (2) dead camels are covered with flies, and crawling over a camel corpse may make for a convenient way to get a good meal of flies.

We have camel spiders in the sandy parts of the southwest U.S. and Mexico (in Mexico they are called matevenados), considerably smaller than the Middle Eastern types, but of the same shy, unassuming habits. Completely harmless and beneficial critters, like the desert equivalent of a praying mantis."

That's not a spider... That's a spider..!

.. acutally the Funnelweb spider.. now that's a spider, but this redback isn't doing so bad. They were everywhere on my friends house when I was over there last year. This one's next to a downpipe from the roof.