arachnid

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Despite noble false widow spiders’ taste for large prey, Dunbar doubts the arachnids will ever pose a serious threat to vertebrates such as pygmy shrews.

From Scientific American

According to Mercedes Burns, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County who studies arachnid reproduction, these muscles are reminiscent of those of the daddy longlegs spider.

From New York Times

It’s difficult to believe that anything would want to make a meal of such a venomous arachnid, but in California and other Western states, the alligator lizard snarfs up widows like crunchy black popcorn.

From New York Times

At the center of one is a human heart with a scorpion nestled inside, a reference to the belief that the venomous arachnids sometimes commit suicide.

From Washington Post

A study of orb-weaving spiders shows that the arachnids' webs pick up a range of sounds--and they are always "listening" for vibrations coming in over them.

From Scientific American