Sentences with phrase «known arachnid»

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Dress baby up as an arachnid or follow the instructions for this No - Sew Spider Costume from Martha Stewart.

Associations in which a more vulnerable species gains protection by seeking out the company of a pugnacious protector species capable of deterring predators are more well - known among birds than among arachnids.

For the first time, researchers have created a visual atlas and dictionary of terms for the many strange features on the fearsome - looking jaws of a little known group of arachnids.

The arachnids are known for their brilliant eyesight, and a new study shows they have even greater sensory prowess than we thought: Jumping spiders can hear sounds even though they don't have ears — or even eardrums.

In a later study comparing almost 3400 active genes in 70 spider species, Bond's team found that mostly webless, ground - dwelling arachnids such as wolf spiders and jumping spiders diversified much more quickly than web weavers, perhaps because they were able to exploit a plethora of new opportunities once they no longer had to build and tend webs.

Called ogre - faced spiders because of their looks, these gangly arachnids are also known as net - casting spiders for their hunting technique.

Very little is known about how spiders and other arachnids, such as scorpions and harvestmen, fit together in a family tree, Garwood said.

Members of an earlier arachnid branch, called the Uraraneida, known from 385 - million - year - old fossils, were also spiderlike in appearance, Garwood said, but had a long, tail - like structure called the flagellum that disappeared before I. brasieri branched off the family tree.

Few arachnid species today are known to share a web, suggesting this is the oldest fossil evidence of social behavior in spiders.

Idmonarachne can't be placed within previously known groups of arachnids, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In the study, Setton and Sharma show that a pair of genes, known as Sp6 - 9 and Dll, normally involved in telling a developing insect or arachnid embryo where to grow legs, has been co-opted by a group of arachnids to also help tell the embryo where to build its head.

1/12/2017 — From Tuscany Italy, the trio known as Disboskator, unleash their new four song EP Terror in Dreamland with a sound laced with arachnid venom.

17 pages.I know About Animals Animal Classification Flip Book has Characteristics and examples worksheets for the below Animal Classifications: Vertebrates - birds, fishes, amphibians, mammals, reptiles Invertebrates - insects, annelids, mollusk, arthropods, protozoa, crustaceans, arachnids, echinoderms.

Known to most as the Butcher, but he's also been called the Swarm Slayer, the Enforcer, Arachnid Assassin, the Bug Hunter, Hive Destroyer, The Hand of Death, and many more including Short Stack and Secret Egg.

As I slowly slashed and dodged the giant arachnids, I watched as Theseus» character model would reset and stutter, instead of offering any sense of fluid combat that I know has been possible for more than 10 years.

Gallery 101 presents: BUZZ: Getting to Know Other Animals Kimberly Edgar, Deborah Margo, Bioni Samp, Amy Swartz, and work from the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, (CNC).

Surprisingly, we've known about peacock spiders since the 1800's, but it's only recently that scientists have focused attention on these small but spectacular arachnids, which measure between 3 and 7 millimeters (0.1 to 0.3 inches) long.

The findings of a decade - long research project that had biologists scouring every bit of tarantula turf in the southwestern United States have been published, making it clear how little we previously knew about these enigmatic arachnids.