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Zoologger: Attack of the giraffe assassin bug

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Zoologger: Attack of the giraffe assassin bug

A long neck comes in handy if you want to lean into a spider web and stab the arachnid perched in the centre

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Spider silk spun into violin strings

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Spider silk spun into violin strings

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Zoologger: How a blurry-eyed spider pounces on target

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Zoologger: How a blurry-eyed spider pounces on target

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Stretching spider silk to its high-tech limits

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Stretching spider silk to its high-tech limits

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Zoologger: My brain's so big it spills into my legs

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Zoologger: My brain's so big it spills into my legs

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Spider webs protected by chemical ants hate

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Zoologger: The biggest spider web in the world

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Zoologger: The biggest spider web in the world

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Spider play sex isn't all fun and games

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Spider play sex isn't all fun and games

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Self-directed microspider could repair blood vessels

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Zoologger: The hardest spider in the world

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Zoologger: The hardest spider in the world

If you're a spider, you'd be crazy to hunt a spider that hunts spiders – wouldn't you? Looks like no one told Palpimanus gibbulus

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Scuba spider uses web as gill to breathe underwater

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Subliminal spiders help people overcome phobia

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Bug to spider: I will control your offspring's sex

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Zoologger: Well-fed black widows promise safe sex

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