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No, you don’t swallow 8 spiders in sleep and here’s the test
I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral ...
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Humans don’t eat 8 spiders per year in their sleep — here’s how we’d know if we did
Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing ...
Afraid of spiders no more: New exhibit at Notebaert Nature Museum takes the mystery out of arachnids
There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him. In a better documented ...
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A strange, spiny-legged arachnid from prehistoric times has been unearthed in Illinois. The newly discovered species, named Douglassarachne acanthopoda, lived around 308 million years ago and was ...
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