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04-08-2016, 11:35 AM
This spider from New Zealand has lightning fast jaws
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There are plenty of insects and reptiles out there that are quick when it comes to prey, but this trap-jaw spider might just be too fast for them.
Researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have discovered some tiny Mecysmaucheniid "trap-jaw" spiders can snap their jaws so fast, that they needed to be captured at 40,000 frames a second by a high speed camera.
SEE ALSO: Indonesian singer continues performing despite cobra bite, dies shortly after (http://mashable.com/2016/04/07/irma-bule-cobra-bite/)
The spiders are only found in New Zealand and southern parts of South America, with the quickest of the 14 species of*trap-jaw spider closing their jaw more than 100 times faster than the slowest. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/08/lightning-fast-spider-jaws/)
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There are plenty of insects and reptiles out there that are quick when it comes to prey, but this trap-jaw spider might just be too fast for them.
Researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have discovered some tiny Mecysmaucheniid "trap-jaw" spiders can snap their jaws so fast, that they needed to be captured at 40,000 frames a second by a high speed camera.
SEE ALSO: Indonesian singer continues performing despite cobra bite, dies shortly after (http://mashable.com/2016/04/07/irma-bule-cobra-bite/)
The spiders are only found in New Zealand and southern parts of South America, with the quickest of the 14 species of*trap-jaw spider closing their jaw more than 100 times faster than the slowest. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/08/lightning-fast-spider-jaws/)
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