These creatures do not actually eat camels' stomachs or sleeping soldiers, and they are not so large—but the real camel spider is still an amazing predator. The camel spider's history of misinformation begins
The scariest part about the camel spider is the outlandish myths surrounding it. Some of these myths exaggerate the camel spider’s size, while others claim that they chase humans (and at terrifying speeds), scream, and even feast on camels and humans. Luckily, the majority of these stories ...
Their running speeds have been clocked at 10 miles per hour. The secret to the fast Camel Spider running speed is its trachea. Unlike most spiders, Camel Spiders breathe with a trachea. This allows them to breathe large amounts of oxygen quickly and move faster than most insects their size....
What do I mean by real? Jeremy Miller was hunting black widow spiders in a Madagascar forest last winter (of 2005) when he came upon a curious fist-size web made of leaves, branches and debris woven together with thin, tough strands of spider silk. No black widow ever made such a ...
Historical biogeography of the camel spider genus Eremocosta. Ancestral areas estimated by RASP using DEC + j were mapped on MRCA nodes for each species in our favored time-calibrated topology (a) and onto the ecoregions map of North America (b). The colors of each circle indicate the...