Spiders Coming Back to Life
In light of Halloween being just behind us. I thought it intriguing that I should discover an article about spiders that come back from “death”. Scientists studying the time it takes to kill a spider by drowning. After the spiders had “drown” (some being left in the water for over 40 hours) the researchers removed them from the water and then left them out to dry in order to determine their dry weight. A few hours later they began to twitch and get back up on their feet and move around. It seems as though they put themselves into a type of comatose state, reducing metabolic process down to those necessary for survival and not requiring air. It’s an amazing discovery but could you imagine being the one to discover it. They had to have been thinking, “okay who is the joker who moved the spiders” or ” who switched the dead one for the live one”. I’m glad I wasn’t in the lab that day.
