spider
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The team also produced an identification guide to help scientists distinguish sea spider species found throughout the region.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The spider has recently been recorded in Worcestershire, alongside sightings in Herefordshire and Warwickshire, said the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I have no idea what children will make of a movie with as many semi-serious gags about extortionate legal bills as silly ones where a spider mugs a bug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
That radioactive spider that transformed Peter Parker into Spider-Man could have bitten the class moron just as easily.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
No longer able to hear the spider or any other being, he slept easily.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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They were the first invertebrates -- a broad group of animals including spiders, snails and worms -- shown to use celestial navigation for such long trips.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The fossil record includes spiders, flies, wasps or beetles, insect larvae, crustaceans, vertebrates such as fish and amphibians, and a remarkable diversity of plants.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Rearing the snails - as well as other critically endangered invertebrates such as scarlet malachite beetles, ladybird spiders and tadpole shrimp - has become a family affair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Marsh harriers, bearded tits, flocks of waders and overwintering ducks and geese are a regular sight for visitors, along with otters, water voles, fen raft spiders, orchids and rare sharp-leaved pondweed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Not just because it’s dark and wet and full of spiders and who knows what else, and not just because it’s always scary weather that necessitates entering its depths.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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