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http://www.cracked.com/article_22136_spiders-that-look-like-wood-5-animals-hiding-in-plain-sight_p2.html

 

That is not a vaguely spider-shaped stick. That is a vaguely stick-shaped spider. That is Poltys laciniosus. That is proof that love is a lie made up by madmen who faced the cold void that lurks behind the universe and turned away.

 

By night it's an ordinary mundane horror of a spider -- it makes webs, it captures insects, it devours their insides and ****s out hope -- but come daybreak, it draws up its legs and morphs into a piece of bark, just waiting for you to accidentally touch it so it can permanently ruin your ability to trust.

 

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Daintree Rainforest

Here is a stump-shaped spider. Prepare for stump-shaped fingers.

 

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I'll just leave this here.

 

 
5 Insane Things Science Just Found Out About the Human Body

 

#5. There Are Tiny Spiders Living in Your Face Right Now

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Sometime in 2014, scientists pointed a high-powered electron microscope at the surface of the human face, and they still haven't stopped screaming. What they saw in the high-resolution moonscape of the average human mug looked something like this:

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Sleep well, everyone!

Those blue things are tiny arachnids known as "Demodex brevis," and they live in your pores right now. Yes, in your pores. Researchers discovered that precisely 100 percent of people examined were home to massive colonies of microscopic face spiders.

Whoa, hey -- stop clawing at your skin; you need that to live.

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You'll just make the spiders angry.

 

 

 

Read the rest here:

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_22180_5-insane-things-we-recently-discovered-in-human-body.html 

 

You're welcome.

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Not sure if posted.  Remember, 99% of spider bites are not harmful to humans

 

Brazilian Wandering Spiders:

 

They like bananas and sometimes make their way to other continents with the fruit.

 

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Interesting note:

 

Aside from causing intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism in humans. Erections resulting from the bite are uncomfortable, can last for many hours and can lead to impotence. A component of the venom (Tx2-6) is being studied for use in erectile dysfunction treatments.

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The Portia spider is actually pretty cool because of how smart they are. They employ intelligent and varied hunting strategies based on circumstances and type of spider they're hunting (they pretty much exclusively eat other spiders). Scientists are pretty perplexed by them because with nothing but a small neural net that isn't even in the same ballpark as a brain, they have absolutely no business being able to do some of the things they do. 

 

http://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/Portia.htm

 

http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_spider%20minds.html

 

 

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