In Australia, found a spider that eats fish and frogs – BBC

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at the World Science Festival in Brisbane , biologists have shown the public a new kind of aquatic spiders, called Dolomedes briangreenei in honor of one of the founders Brian Green festival.

Spiders species Dolomedes briangreenei are endemic to Queensland. They are notable for the fact that the hunt thanks to vibrations on the surface of the water. Robert Raven, chief arachnology Queensland Museum, explained that the spider catches its prey and drown. Spider can stay under water for an hour to catch animals and fish, the size of which exceeds its own three times.

The value of the detected spider can reach the palm of an adult human. However, for people they do not represent any danger

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