Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high speeds and taking down camels have made the species notorious across the ...

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A money spider (Tenuiphantes sp.) balloons, under controlled conditions, from its daisy perch. You can see the trichobothria (leg hairs) and dragline silk in this picture. (Michael Hutchinson via ...

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Despite their name, camel spiders aren’t actually spiders. They belong to the arachnid order solifugae and possess neither silk-producing organs nor venom. Remarkably, there are more than 1,000 ...

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