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This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

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When a spider stops moving, it often finds itself tucked behind a sofa or caught in a room's corner. The legs are pulled in ...

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.

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When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...