spider
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The discoveries mark the first new sea spider species formally described from the Salish Sea in nearly 100 years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
I have no idea what children will make of a movie with as many semi-serious gags about extortionate legal bills as silly ones where a spider mugs a bug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
That radioactive spider that transformed Peter Parker into Spider-Man could have bitten the class moron just as easily.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Scientists have discovered the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became spider fangs in a fossil dating back 518 million years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Then she goes to work and stings a spider with her pizen.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
They were the first invertebrates -- a broad group of animals including spiders, snails and worms -- shown to use celestial navigation for such long trips.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
They are related to spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs, but unlike their land-dwelling relatives, they remained entirely marine.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Rearing the snails - as well as other critically endangered invertebrates such as scarlet malachite beetles, ladybird spiders and tadpole shrimp - has become a family affair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Marsh harriers, bearded tits, flocks of waders and overwintering ducks and geese are a regular sight for visitors, along with otters, water voles, fen raft spiders, orchids and rare sharp-leaved pondweed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
I hate bees, as much as I hate spiders.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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