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Animals are becoming another worry for citizens affected by the Mississippi River floods. Snakes, Spiders, and Alligators are creeping in. Almost 100,000 downloads on Xbox Live® Arcade and PlayStation® Network. PARIS, France - May 9, 2011 Focus Home Interactive and Spiders today announced that Faery: Legends of Avalon, the game that developed a following among Xbox 360 and PlayStation® 3 players, has now been released for PC. Thanks to word of mouth, the game has sold [...] M is for the many things she gives me… If Twitter had existed a hundred years ago, do you think Mata Hari would have used it? I don't understand men who do crap like this. It's bizarre and it's wrong. Here's yet another example of why candidates for public office need to make sure they [...] The mutant mythmaker who fell to cinematic Earth back in 1976 drops into a major art retrospective this month in the new exhibition, David Bowie, Artist. The multiplatform Bowie-ganza starts Monday, with kiosks showcasing the Thin White Duke's music videos, interviews and concert footage. Winner of a 2007 Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, Bowie made his mark [...] Male spiders (and males across the animal kingdom) will often court anything that even vaguely resembles a female. One in particular — the jumping spider — has a snazzy technique to catch their mate: dance their hearts out. Sonic Boom Six The Defiled and Black Spiders complete the bill of the metal fest. Two booksellers using Amazon's algorithmic pricing to ensure they were generating marginally more revenue than their main competitor ended up pushing the price of a book on evolutionary biology -- Peter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly -- to $23,698,655.93. The book, which was published in 1992, is out of print but is commonly used as [...] One of the most feared spiders in North America -- the brown recluse -- is the subject a new study that aims to predict its distribution and how that distribution may be affected by climate changes. Researchers believe that the range may expand northward, potentially invading previously unaffected regions. Newly influenced areas may include parts of Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, South Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. _Nephila jurassica_, with a 5mm scale bar **What's the News:** Researchers have unearthed the largest fossilized spider yet, announced in a study online today in _Biology Letters_. The fossil, a Jurassic Period ancestor of the modern orb-weaver spider,  gives scientists a glimpse not only into the evolutionary history of orb-weaver spiders, but how these ancient arachnids might have impacted the evolution of insect species that could be snared in the webs. **How the Heck:** The fossil, found preserved in volcanic ash in the Daohugou fossil beds in northeastern China, dates back 165 million years. The researchers dubbed the species _Nephila jurassica_. At about an inch long, the spider's body isn't unusually large, but its leg span, at nearly six inches, is the largest seen in a fossil spider. This spider was female, suggesting the size disparity seen in modern orb-weaver spiders--with females dwarfing the males--may have begun at least 165 million years ago. Silk spinning organs, called spinnerets, preserved on the fossilized spider's legs suggest that, like its modern counterparts, _Nephila jurassica_ spun big, durable webs. The spider's formidable prey-catching ability likely drove the evolution of the medium-to- large insects it fed on, as those species scrambled to ... See Also: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year 35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography Snowflakes Under an Electron Microscope Tiny Spheres Turn Regular Microscopes Into Nanoscopes It's not good news for Dentists as the latest piece of research by the British Dental Health Foundation suggests that visiting the dentist makes people more nervous than snakes or spiders (1). The research echoes last month's Adult Dental Health Survey (2) which revealed half of adults - especially women - were classified as having moderate to extreme dental anxiety... Scientists have unearthed the largest spider fossil ever found. The spider, a new species called Nephila jurassica, stretches about two inches from end to end. It was found in a fossil-rich rock formation near Daohugou village in northeastern China. The fossil dates back to the Middle Jurassic, about 165 million years ago, researchers reported in the [...] Airborne lasers can help scientists better monitor spiders by mapping crucial, hard-to-reach habitats. Researchers created 3-D maps of prime spider habitats in a German national park using a remote sensing system, called LiDAR, mounted on helicopters. The system uses lasers to characterize broad swaths of land in relatively little time, as opposed to doing surveys on [...] A disused, contaminated stretch in north Kent is an ecological wonder that charity Buglife is fighting to have recognised It looks like one of Britain's least attractive places, a blighted stretch of abandoned industrial land littered with plastic, broken concrete, crash barriers and building rubble. Contaminated with asbestos, oil and industrial chemicals, this 189-hectare (467-acre) former BP oil refinery brownfield site on the Isle of Grain in the Thames estuary is a messy, dangerous place. But the site near Rochester in north Kent is also potentially one of Britain's two or three most important wildlife sites – the equivalent of a national park for bees, butterflies, beetles and other invertebrates. Left alone by humans for nearly 25 years, fenced off and allowed to degenerate by its present owner, National Grid, this remote corner of the Thames Gateway is being compared to a miniature lost world by conservationists who are fighting to avoid its planned destruction to make way for a giant lorry park. No one knows exactly what nature has squatted here, says Sarah Hensall, a conservation officer with the charity Buglife. In the past 40 years, she says, one person has been allowed in to ... Westerners might get a bit queasy when they think about eating locusts, spiders or ants, but they make up delicacies and key sources of protein in much of the world. A new movement is trying to bring them onto Western plates in an effort to save the environment. Scientists, led by an Indian-origin, in Uruguay have discovered that male wolf spiders mate with virgins and eating older females. Q: We have lived in our house for 23 years. Every car we have had in that period has eventually been invaded by gnat-size spiders. The cars have been parked in our driveway under the summer shade of an apricot tree and...
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