March 5, 2008
· Filed under Join In With The Fun, Spiders (Arachnids), World Records 2006, invertebrates
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.

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July 3, 2007
· Filed under Spiders (Arachnids)
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.
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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.

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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Huntman Spiders139 words, 1 image, reading time ~ 33 secs
September 26, 2006
· Filed under Spiders (Arachnids)
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

a female Black Widow Spider has a hourglass on its stomach

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


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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Black Widow Spider136 words, 6 images, reading time ~ 33 secs