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Any living creature of the Kingdom Animalia constituting multi-celled organisms as well as single-celled organisms lacking chlorophyll and having the ability for spontaneous movement, such as protozoans.

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scorpion tailed spider
Animals; Spiders

So named because of the female’s weird abdomen, ended in a “tail” similar to that of a scorpion. When threatened, the scorpion-tailed spider arches this tail as a scorpion would. ...

argyrodes columbrinus
Animals; Spiders

Usually known as the whip spider, although this name is also used for another arachnid and could lead to confusion. Found in Australia, this spider has a long, thin abdomen ...

argyroneta aquatica
Animals; Spiders

Known usually as the water spider or diving bell spider, it is the only completely aquatic spider in the world. It is found in Europe and Asia, from the UK to Siberia, and lives ...

bird dung crab spider
Animals; Spiders

This spider has one of the most effective camouflages of all animals; its body is covered in blobs and warts that give it the appearance of a fresh piece of bird excrement; it ...

bagheera kiplingi
Animals; Spiders

This spider was named bagheera kiplingi after bagheera, the black panther character in The Jungle Book, and the book’s author Rudyard Kipling. It was seemingly named because of ...

silk
Animals; Spiders

A fibrous material that is produced by spiders and some insects.

chelicera
Animals; Spiders

Chelicerae are the first pairs of appendages of the front of an arachnids body. Some arachnids have pincers on the end and some spiders can inject venom through them.

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