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Master of Disguise: The Ant-Mimicking Spider’s Survival Strategy


A fossilized ant-mimicking spider reveals the evolutionary tactics spiders use to avoid predators, emphasizing the adaptive benefits of mimicry in the spider kingdom. Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow, or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators o

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