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The Spider Paratroopers Of Australia

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
May 19, 2015
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 05/19/2015 - 08:00
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Unless you are a hippie growing organic, vegetarian, free-range chickens in Oregon, you probably recognize that nature is out to kill you. But nothing is out to kill you like nature in Australia.

But Aussies can find a positive in anything and baby spiders that build streamers of silk which they use to surf the winds as high as 3 kilometers off the ground and then cover buildings and fields get called “Angel Hair.”


A home surrounded by spiderwebs as floodwaters rise around Wagga Wagga in 2012. Photo: Reuters

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