Tag Archives: silk
The Golden Fleece
Like the endless nature documentaries that invariably used a football field as the default unit of measurement for flea-jumping, nearly every educational book or film that mentions spiders always talked about the incredible unrealized potential of spider silk. “Pound for … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Institute of Chicago, Golden Orb, Madagascar, Nicholas Godley, Paul Camboué, silk, Simon Peers, spider
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Wonders beneath your feet
This is an absolutely wonderful article about a new discovery: Tarantulas not only posses spinnerets, but have silk glands on their feet. Wired News has a picture-laden article about the whole silky saga. This enables the heavy arachnids to climb … Continue reading
