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  • The 15 Most Fun Evolutionary Adaptations

    The 15 Most Fun Evolutionary Adaptations

    Billions of years of evolution has given rise to us, the millions of species that persist on planet Earth today. Some of us are small, some of us are big, and some of us have huge ears, flat tails, compound eyes, or infrared vision. Each of these adaptations has its merits, but only a handful…


  • MIT Researchers Want to Talk to Spiders

    MIT Researchers Want to Talk to Spiders

    If you think working from home is hard, consider the spider, who lives at work in a house it built. Arachnids use their intricate webs to trap meals, navigating across the structure using the vibrations it senses through the hairs on its legs.


  • Badass Spider Uses Insect Corpses To Make A Giant Spider Design Decoy

    Badass Spider Uses Insect Corpses To Make A Giant Spider Design Decoy

    Like in Game of Thrones, where the Iron Throne was forged from the swords of all the enemies Aegon the Conqueror defeated, this Cyclosa spider uses its dead enemies’ bodies to build a big fake spider decoy design to sit on. Seriously, the spider uses its victim’s insect corpses to construct a larger spider-shaped design…