Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The scariest thing about global warming? Giant, super-fast spiders

The scariest thing about global warming? Giant, super-fast spiders - Telegraph
The scariest thing about global warming? Giant, super-fast spiders

New research suggests that climate change could make spiders not only more numerous but larger and faster on their feet

Forget floods, droughts, sea-level rise and even the melting polar ice caps. Here’s a really compelling reason to worry about global warming. Spiders.
Research has already suggested that there will be more of them – and they will grow bigger – as temperatures rise. Now a new study, published in the journal Experimental Biology, has concluded that they are likely to be able to run faster and therefore, be harder to catch.

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