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In this episode of Life ’s Little Mysteries , we ’ll take a closer look at mysterious arachnids with more leg and eyes than you could matter on one hand : spider .

How long have spiders been around ? How many unlike spider specie are there , and which species are the most dangerous to humans ? Listen to Life ’s Little Mysteries 25 : Mysterious Spiders , to find out !

Life’s Little Mysteries

We ’ll also discover about flyspeck , colorful peacock spiders , and how the male person ' luxuriant courtship dances protect them from being eaten … not by predator , but by the much - self-aggrandizing females .

Co - server : Jeanna BrynerandMindy Weisberger

Guest : Kimberly Hickock , reference point editor program for Live Science and Space.com

A jumping spider against a pink background

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A male of the peacock spider species Maratus jactatus, lifts its leg as part of a mating dance.

a close-up of a fly

A large deep sea spider crawls across the ocean floor

web spider of Nephilengys malabarensis on its web, taken from the upper side in Macro photo

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant

A caterpillar covered in parasitic wasp cocoons.

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

an illustration of a group of sperm

an MRI scan of a brain

Pile of whole cucumbers

An illustration of a hand that transforms into a strand of DNA

X-ray image of the man�s neck and skull with a white and a black arrow pointing to areas of trapped air underneath the skin of his neck

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

a view of a tomb with scaffolding on it

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

A small phallic stalagmite is encircled by a 500-year-old bracelet carved from shell with Maya-like imagery

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea