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   laurentweppe

   6 October 2012 at 12:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The molting whipscorpion really reminds me of Babylon Five’s shadow warships.

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   Keith Peterson

   6 October 2012 at 12:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   D’awwwwwwww!

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   catwhisperer

   6 October 2012 at 3:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Goddammit, I was about to go to bed, now I’ll have nightmares!

   I thought the moulting one looked like those “alien” facehugger things.

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   ChasCPeterson

   6 October 2012 at 4:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   mmmmm, chelicerates.

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   a3kr0n

   6 October 2012 at 4:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That brings back memories of the time I touched a spider with a stick, and like a 1000 baby spiders scurried off. [shudder]

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   Ichthyic

   6 October 2012 at 4:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   mmmmm, chelicerates.

   or at least chelicerae?

   to be distinguished from the perhaps much more tasty chelae?

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   Olav

   6 October 2012 at 5:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Fascinating little animal, can’t exactly call it “cute” though.

   I am not phobic of arthropods, but still my initial instinctive reaction with these would be to keep a little distance.

   Jumping spiders I do find cute and funny. Perhaps because of the cartoonish big eyes in proportion to their bodies. Also because the ones I usually encounter are so tiny overall as to be completely non-threatening.

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   Fizzing thru da Fizzics

   6 October 2012 at 7:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   OT but PZ, have you seen this? Octopi rule!!
   http://deepseanews.com/2012/10/octopus-steals-food-and-casually-wrestles-shark/

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   blogofmyself

   6 October 2012 at 10:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Those things are so cool. I’ve always wanted to see one in real life, but I don’t think I’ve ever lived anywhere within their natural range. Can you imagine just walking outside and flipping over a rock or something and suddenly there’s a tailless whipscorpion just hanging out? That would be simultaneously amazing and terrifying.
   When I was little my mom was a biologist (she later switched to teaching). She studied spiders, so I have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for arachnids.

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    lurkeressa

    7 October 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Awww… arachnid babies. So much more agreeable than human ones, at least when it comes to noise.

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    sarahb

    7 October 2012 at 3:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Is it wrong that I think they look like delicious candy?

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    Caine, Divisitrix du mal

    7 October 2012 at 3:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Very, very cool.

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    Ichthyic

    7 October 2012 at 4:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Is it wrong that I think they look like delicious candy?

    
    like Popplers?

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    Yuriel

    7 October 2012 at 11:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    D: I took a look at the site and all I can say is: holy crap, it’s the animal on which Prof. Moody demonstrated the Unforgivable curses at Hogwarts. Those freaking things are real?!