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• Fancy footwork and non-stick leg coating helps spiders not stick to their own webs

  1 March 2012

  

   

• Male spider’s sexual organs work fastest only when a female breaks them off

  7 February 2012

  

   

• Brains of tiny spiders fill their body cavities and legs, Smithsonian researchers discover

  12 December 2011

  

   

• 8 strange but true spider facts

  28 October 2011

  

   

• Suitor’s gentle massage soothes aggressive, cannibalistic female spiders, researchers find

  14 October 2011

  

   

• Invertebrates are ignored, overlooked by conservationists, policymakers and the public

  1 September 2011

  

   

• Manakins, birds of tropical forests, form alliances for common good

  22 June 2011

  

   

• Don’t pick a fight with a eunuch spider. It has nothing to lose

  7 April 2011

  

   

• A Halloween roundup featuring recent articles on spiders, bats and rats

  26 October 2010

  

   

• Newly discovered Madagascar spider spins largest, toughest webs on record

  2 October 2010

  

   

• Tiny, new brains prove just as adept as large, mature brains among tropical orb-web spiders

  2 June 2010

  

   

• Drugged spiders’ web spinning may hold keys to understanding animal behavior

  11 January 2010

  

   

• Females are giants in newly discovered species of golden orb weaver spider

  21 October 2009

  

   

• New species of giant rat discovered in crater of volcano in Papua New Guinea

  9 September 2009