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Getting Annoyed at Your Noisy Neighbor? Spiders Are, Too. New Research Finds They’ll Build Webs Differently in Loud Conditions
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...
Master architects of spider world discovered in northern Australia
A team of scientists led by The University of Western Australia has discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in the ...
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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
Females are a dull brownish gray but — like their namesake, the peacock — male sparklemuffins pull out all the stops in the ...
No, scared spiders don't run toward people for protection
"Spiders do not usually run towards people when they sense danger. This would be like humans running towards something like ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man Has a New Costume (With an Addition That Might Surprise You)
Man's upcoming new costume, which draws inspiration from Japanese culture and Super Sentai. The new Spider-Man look is for ...
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The 10 venomous spiders in Louisiana: What to look out for and typical bite reactions
As the weather grows warmer, more spiders will begin to appear. Here are the 10 venomous spiders in Louisiana and typical ...
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Spider development and vision: A genetic perspective
One of the key findings of the study is that the sine oculis gene plays a conserved role in eye development in spiders, reinforcing its importance in arachnid visual systems. The research also ...
How a mystery spider’s candyfloss-like egg sac in Singapore spun a worldwide web of connections
An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...