Most of us think of humans as having five senses, but we might actually have two more: proprioception and this sense, which might even enhance robotics someday.
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A new spider was just found in the sands of Southern California, but scientists are already worried about the long-term survival of this species.
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A spider in Australia lived for an impressive four decades, but in 2016, it was found dead, apparently killed in a rather disgusting fashion.
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Fossil hunters in Kenya have uncovered footprints on an ancient shore that are teaching us something entirely new about how ancient hominins lived.
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Dolphins might come to mind when it comes to smart animals; cephalopods probably don't. But this experiment found they passed a test made for human children.
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Though most people aren't the biggest fan of spiders, their silk is a biological marvel, and the silk of this species has been used to make works of art.
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Some cities are known for cloudy skies, and others for sunshine and surf. But those lines can blur, and some sunny spots have surprising levels of rain.
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It's not news that bugs fly around lights, but the reason why is a bit more of a mystery. According to research, there might be a biological reason.
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Spiders are pretty scary to plenty of people, but the terrifyingly large eyes of this species also set them far apart from their arachnid cousins.
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Antarctica is famously an icy wasteland in the modern day, but far in the past, dinosaurs once roamed a very different, incredibly lush, continent.
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With human activity having quite an effect on the Earth, many animal species have gone extinct. Fortunately, though, that doesn't always end in tragedy.
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While most people think of spiders spinning webs to catch prey, the Scytodes makes use of a different tactic to paralyze their prey before devouring them.
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Though the dinosaurs were all killed by a meteor, not all were created equal in life. This species in particular was adept at survival in a way others weren't.
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This invasive spiderling is floating its way along the East Coast of the U.S., and scientists are left wondering just how much damage they might cause.
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People have slowly come around on the idea that dinosaurs actually had feathers, but this tiny dino had some very unique plumage, albeit for surprising reasons.
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Dinosaurs were a lot closer to birds than movies would make you think, but this tiny dinosaur didn't only have feathers, but full wings in an odd spot.
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One animal's predator is often animal's prey, but not with these species. Many of them are too tough to be taken down, though some have stranger tactics.
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While spiders are often seen as pretty creepy, pirate spiders are downright devious, using clever tricks to feed their cannibalistic tendencies.
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While squishing worms might seem like a reasonable way to kill them, when it comes to the hammerhead worm, that reaction could easily make your problems worse.
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It's not often that you lose a species for over 60 years, but that's what happened to this little lizard that has been coming back from the brink.
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Pooping seems like one of those things that all animals do, but that's not entirely true. Some expel waste in other ways, and others simply don't.
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The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is a beautiful butterfly, but its numbers have dwindled dramatically, and humanity is the cause of two of those threats.
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Spiders, whether you know it or not, are all around us, but what may alarm you is the truth about how much biomass these critters consume every year.
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Somewhere in Florida's waterways, ecologists suspect that a beautiful and elusive snake may be lurking just out of sight, and they're trying to save it.
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The human body is full of 'left overs' that don't seem to serve any useful purpose, and one of those vestigial parts is responsible for goosebumps.
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A mere 300,000 years ago, the world's largest primate still roamed the forests of southern China, how would that massive ape fare in today's world?
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Everybody knows that dinosaurs lived a long time ago, but what isn't well-known is just how long dinosaurs lived, and it's less than we once thought.
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