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Spiders
Find out everything there is to know about spiders and stay updated on the latest spider news with the comprehensive articles, interactive features and spider pictures at LiveScience.com. Learn more about these fascinating arthropod as scientists continue to make amazing discoveries about spiders.
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Nefertiti the Spidernaut, spider, iss, international space station
Not all spider eyes are created equal.
Above average temperatures across the nation led to more insects.
It's a tarantula the size of a dinner plate, known to eat birds.
Snakes eat birds, which eat spiders. No birds, more spiders.
It is a type of goblin spider found only on Horn Island off northern Queensland.
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There are 40,000 types of spiders in the world. All of them bite, but spider bites are rarely deadly.
What we do know about spiders and other arachnids: They are very diverse.
More than 43,000 spider species are known and at least that many remain undiscovered, they say. Catch a glimpse of their incredible diversity.
Spiders can support more than 170 times their body weight before becoming unstuck from a wall.
The brown widow spider is encroaching on black widow territory, a new study suggests.
After ditching their genitals, male spiders get an extra dose of endurance due to their decreased body weight.
The arachnid has fangs that are nearly as large as a cheetah's claws.
A new study may take away one tarantula's superhero powers.
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