Amazonian spider (IMAGE)

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Amazonian spider

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Researchers used several advanced techniques to analyze the venom of the Orange banded tarantula Acanthoscurria juruenicola and tested its capacity to paralyze crickets

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Alexandre K. Tashima/EPM-UNIFESP)

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