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Spiders with brains in their legs!

Galvasean · 2011-12-24 00:05:36

Pretty mad stuff altogether. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111219-spiders-big-brains-bodies-legs-webs-animals-science/

24-12-2011 1:05am

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Pretty mad stuff altogether.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111219-spiders-big-brains-bodies-legs-webs-animals-science/

The researchers found that the smaller the spider, the bigger its brain relative to its body size.

In some spiders, the central nervous system took up nearly 80 percent of the space in their bodies, sometimes even spilling into their legs.

And the brain-filled bodies of some baby spiders—such as the young of the orb-weaver Leucauge mariana—bulge until the spiders grow to adult size.

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now I can freak my girlfriend out with spider facts.

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