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Urban legend has led many to believe that we eat spiders in our sleep, up to as many as eight a year. To put at ease the 3%-15% of people who suffer from arachnophobia (the intense and irrational fear ...

Spiders might keep some arachnophobes up at night — but do the creepy crawlers get any shuteye themselves? A new study leads some scientists to believe spiders may snooze just as humans do. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The ...

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So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a question that keeps ...

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