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Posted on 21st July 2022 |
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This article on USA Today claims that it will tell you the what is the deadliest spider in the world. The answer seems to be the funnel web spider, although this is not explicitly stated. What puts the veracity of the article into question is the description, in the first paragraph, of spiders as "many-legged insects". Spiders are most definitely not insects; insects are a totally different class of species; insects have 6 legs, and spiders have 8. Why do these journalists try to pass themselves off as experts, when they clearly know nothing about the topics they write about? | |