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Pelican spiders: slow, safe assassins

This isn’t your average spider profile. A tiny male pelican spider (Eriauchenius  pauliani) faces left with its pair of long, fang-tipped hunting tools pointing downward in front.

Hannah Wood

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

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Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. But the specialized hunters of the family Archaeidae can kill at a distance.