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“This research shows that brown recluse spiders aren’t the boogeyman that everyone makes them out to be,” Coticchio said.

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The Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, has been implicated in most human fatalities caused by funnel-web species, and ...

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For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.