This Species Of Spider Can “Fly” Through The Amazon Rainforest

Plants and Animals





Photo credit:

A spider from the genus Selenops, which have been found to be able to glide through the forest unaided. Mark Yokoyama/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

As if things couldn’t get worse for those suffering from arachnophobia. First we had the redback spider taking down a snake, then the massive web discovered in Texas. Now, researchers have found that not only can spiders cartwheel and sail, they can also “fly”.