Sorry, Arachnophobes: Terrifying New Study Shows Spiders Can Now Fly

Sorry, Arachnophobes: Terrifying New Study Shows Spiders Can Now Fly

By / Science / Monday, 06 August 2018 02:11

Spiders are already the stuff of nightmares. These tiny land octopi with venomous bites and deathtrap-spinning buttholes don’t any need more ammunition to haunt our thoughts late at night. A new study from Current Biology in July claims, however, that spiders have learned how to fly. So I guess none of us are sleeping anymore, huh.

Accompanied video footage from the study shows spiderlings using wind currents to fly through the air. In true Spidey fashion, they use their webs to propel themselves forward. Unlike Peter Parker, though, it isn’t as much a graceful swing as it is a rapid and random float, or “ballooning.”

 

Read more at Inverse.

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