3. WHEE! SKYDIVING SPIDERS
A nocturnal spider about two inches across is able to steer while falling, much like a wingsuit flyer, in order to return to the tree from which it fell.
“My guess is that many animals living in the trees are good at aerial gliding, from snakes and lizards to ants and now spiders,” says Robert Dudley, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
A shark with a thoroughly astonishing reproductive trick is our next weird discovery…
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