Older version of Zoologger: My brain's so big it spills into my legs

 

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Itsy bitsy spiders have a big problem: where to store their bulging brains. For Anapisona simoni and other arachnid lightweights, the problem is so acute that their brains have literally spilled out of their body cavities and into their legs...

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    Anapisona simoni Gertsch, 1941

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