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Very Old Spider Fossil

Scientists recently found a fully preserved 165 million year old spider fossil. What they're not telling us is that the spider was 7 feet across. 7 FEET! I'm just kidding, I have no idea how big the spider in the fossil was, but imagine if it was a 7 foot tall spider. That'd be scary, right? I freaked myself out a little bit thinking about it.

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Scary Japanese Hornets Are Scary

These Japanese hornets have a stinger that's a quarter of an inch long, can fly 25 MPH and travel 60 miles in a day. If they feel like it, 30 of them can take out a hive of 30K European honey bees in 3 hours. The honey bees are pretty much defenseless, except sometimes 100 of them can trap a Japanese hornet in a tight ball that suffocates them. Yeah, these hornets are scary as shit.

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