Seafaring spiders depend on their 'sails' and 'anchors'

Friday, July 3, 2015 - 00:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Spiders travel across water like ships, using their legs as sails and their silk as an anchor, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The study helps explain how spiders are able to migrate across vast distances and why they are quick to colonise new areas.

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