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Newly discovered fungus turns cave-dwelling spiders into ‘zombies’
The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its ...
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Fossil reveals ancient spider mimicking ant for survival
though no modern Colombian spiders mimic ants. The block of resin in which the spider was entombed was too fragile to date ...
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Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant
n. (Araneae: Salticidae), a new species of ant-mimic spider in copal from Colombia, South America, Historical Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2024.2320190 ...