Thursday, January 16, 2014

Spiderweek: The poison of sadness

Spiderweek has infested your basement! There are millions of them down there, laying eggs in everything! Well, one thing at a time.


Did you know …

That venom of the largest spider in the world, the giant huntsman spider, actually comes from the animal’s tear ducts, and is in fact composed of tears? It’s true!

Evolutionary biologists aren’t yet certain when or how this peculiar mechanism developed, but it sort of makes sense, doesn’t it? Like, when someone makes you sad, don’t you just think, “I want to wrap my arms around your face and poison you”? Spiders are so much more like us than we credit them!

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