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Ancient animal’s fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution
A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that arachnids first evolved in the sea
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Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them
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Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn’t been seen before
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Could spider silk be the answer to sustainable fashion?
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Spiders use fireflies as flashing lures to catch more prey
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Male and female spiders pair up to look like a flower
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Tap-dancing spider rediscovered after disappearing for 92 years
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Jumping spiders seem to recognise each other if they have met before
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Some insects disguise themselves as spiders to avoid getting eaten
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Flatworm caught hunting and killing spider on its own web
Flatworms are slow-moving predators with poor vision, but one of them managed to attack a spider as it guarded its egg sac
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Silkworms genetically engineered to produce pure spider silk
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Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines of silk
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Young cupboard spiders sometimes turn cannibal and eat their siblings
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Synthetic spider silk laced with graphene can heal itself when wet
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