Scientists ran a simple experiment "to determine whether spiders in flood-prone marshes had evolved to survive longer underwater than forest-dwelling spiders can." As expected, the spiders eventually all died. Or so they THOUGHT.
Hours later, the spiders began twitching and were soon back on their eight feet."This is the first time we know of arthropods returning to life from comas after submersion," said lead researcher Julien Pétillon, an arachnologist now at Ghent University in Belgium.
WHAT THE FUCK. It's discoveries like this that adds to my ongoing fear of spiders.
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