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Record-Setting Tarantulas Boast Longest Sex Organs to Avoid Getting Eaten by Females

Record-Setting Tarantulas Boast Longest Sex Organs to Avoid Getting Eaten by Females

Researchers have just identified four new species of tarantulas whose genitals are so long they had to make a new biological classification for them. Meet the Satyrex ferox, S. arabicus, S. somalicus, and S. speciosus. They hail from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa and are so different from their closest relatives—on both the morphological and molecular level—that …

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