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These spiders can hear with their legs – CNET
For these ogre-faced arachnids, “some of the coolest spiders on the planet,” legs do double duty.
Huge eyes and legs that can hear … this spider has it all.
Video screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET
Legs would seem to be pretty useful to spiders — after all, they have eight of them. But a recent Cornell University study reveals that a certain kind of arachnid doesn’t just use its legs to move around, but to hear airborne prey — and turn it into lunch.
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, makes the spiders sound like Marvel superheroes. It confirmed that the spiders…
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