spiders
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Rare Spider Fossil Preserves 100-Million-Year-Old Glowing Eyes
A new spider fossil discovery included a surprising find: remnants of reflective eye tissue.
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Infected ‘Zombie Spiders’ Forced To Build Incubation Chambers For Their Parasitic Overlords
Parasites that control the behaviour of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon, but the discovery of a previously unknown relationship between a parasitic wasp and a social spider is particularly upsetting.
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Viral Facebook Post About A ‘Deadly Spider’ Spreading Across The US Is Totally Fake
If you’ve seen a viral Facebook post about a spider “from Hell” killing people in the US, I have some good news: It’s completely false. Since it was first posted on Tuesday, “NEW DEADLY SPIDER SPREADS ACROSS USA” has been shared on the social network over a million times, but the spider shown in the…
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New Translucent Spider Discovered Living In Muddy Indiana Cave
Scientists have discovered a new species of sheet-weaving spider, and it only dwells in one cave in southern Indiana. As its name suggests, this spider spins flat, tightly-woven, horizontal webs. There are thousands of species of sheet-weavers, and you’ve probably walked through one of their webs by accident some point.