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These bizarre new tarantulas turn mating into a fight for survival


A newly discovered group of tarantulas is so bizarre that scientists had to invent a whole new genus—Satyrex—to describe them. With unusually long mating appendages and fierce, hissing defenses, these spiders are as strange as they are intimidating.

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