Of all the creatures that fly, swim, or crawl across the face of the planet, perhaps none more commonly inspire feelings of unease, queasiness, and outright fear than spiders.
Of all the creatures that fly, swim, or crawl across the face of the planet, perhaps none more commonly inspire feelings of unease, queasiness, and outright fear than spiders.
It is too easily forgotten that some of the world’s greatest naturalists were also devoutly religious; Darwin himself studied to be a clergyman prior to his sailing on the H.M. S. Beagle.
Fact: Peru has 1,817 known species of birds. Fact: you can’t identify all of them on sight. Fact: neither can I.
When it comes to the stuff of which nightmares are commonly made, it’s difficult to find a more commonly employed foundation material than the creatures contained in the Phylum Arthropoda, particularly those included in the Classes Insecta and Arachnida…