invertebrates

Oldest Land (Still Living) Animal

Animals moved from the sea to the land 414 million years ago, according to discoveries made in 1990 near Ludlow, shrops. The first land animals include two kinds of CENTIPEDE and a TINY SPIDER found among plant debris, suggesting that life moved on to land much earlier than previously thought.

Tiny Spider

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Largest Snail

The largest land gastropod is the African giant snail Achatina achatina. The biggest specimen on record was 15.5 in. long from snout to tail and weighed exactly 2 lbs. named Gee Geronimo, it was owned by Christopher Hudson of Hove, E. Sussex, England.

Biggest Snail

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Huntman Spiders

The Huntman spider is only found in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and is the second largest of its species there first is Wood spider also in Australia.

Did You Know?
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The Huntman spider
unlike other Arachnids
can only have eight eyes.
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they have a leg-span of 250–300 mm and have a powerful toxin. Even though they are poisonous there not deadly to humans, there bites make purple swellings and make artreys go numb. This may last one to two days.

Huntsman spiders are scary looking.

Many Huntsman spiders are dull shades of brown or grey. Their legs are covered with fairly prominent spines, but the rest of their bodies appear smooth.

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Granrojo - The Jellyfish

Granrojo also means “Big Red” is a new speices of jellyfish found in, Japan, Hawaii and deep down into the Pacific Ocean.

Size:They grow to between 60 and 90 cm (2 to 3 feet)
Weight: has light as a pillow.

A New Spieces of Jellyfish!

Diet: Fish and Crabs

Sadliy not much is known of the new spieces.

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Black Widow Spider

Africa is a famous place for a black widow spider there poisons can kill in minutes as the poisons are made for protecting eggs itself and killing prey twice its size

Black Widow Spider Caught Bee

a female Black Widow Spider has a hourglass on its stomach
hourglass
while male has grey hairs running down its back the female spider is bigger than the the male one

EGGS

After mating a black widow spider will eat the male mating produces eggs and the female spider’s stomach would have swelled twice its in the next two weeks

pregnant spider

eggs

a black widow spider can only have 2,4 and 6 eyes while other spiders can have 2,4,6 and eight

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