Author: Archit Tripathi / Source: did you know?
Australian researchers monitoring spiders in the wild say that the world’s oldest spider on record has died at the ripe old age of 43. The previous title holder was a 28-year-old tarantula.
In a press release, lead researcher Leanda Mason says, “To our knowledge, this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider’s behavior and population dynamics.
”The female Gaius villosus trapdoor spider is a sedentary creature that builds a tunnel in the ground and seldom wanders too far from…
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