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How many eyes does an eyeless big-eyed spider have?

a) No eyes.
b) There are no eyes, but they are large.
c) One big eye that doesn't work.
d) 144 eye-like warts.

He has no eyes.

The blind arachnid was first discovered in 1973, and the entire population lives in three impenetrable caves on the volcanic island of Kauai, which is part of the Hawaiian archipelago.

As is often the case with cave dwellers, the spider evolved without the need for vision, however, being a representative of the big-eyed spider family, it simply must be called "big-eyed" (that is, if its eyes did cut through, they would certainly be large).

Adults are comparable in size to a fifty pence coin. A friend-neighbor and at the same time the main food source of the eyeless big-eyed spider is the Kauai cave amphipod: a small crustacean resembling a blind translucent shrimp.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Have you ever seen a salamander? The appearance of these creatures is not the most attractive. Their lean body, long tail and spread legs resemble a lizard. And perhaps because they have smooth, shiny skin that always looks wet, there is a legend that they can walk through fire without taking any damage. But this is completely untrue.

The natural habitat of salamanders is water or a cool, damp place. If they are deprived of such an environment, they die. Salamanders are amphibians, which means they can live both in water and on land. Strictly speaking, the only true salamanders live in Europe. But in other parts of the world there are many animals that closely resemble salamanders. Salamanders usually lay their eggs in water.

Their cubs have gills, like real aquatic animals. But as an adult, a salamander usually develops lungs, loses its gills, and lives on land. There is a giant Japanese salamander, up to 1,5 m long, retaining both gills and lungs. The black newt greatly annoys the fishermen, because they greedily eat their bait.

Other salamander-like creatures do not develop lungs at all and spend their entire lives as aquatic animals. These include the Mexican axolotl. The newts of Europe and America differ from other salamanders in that they can return to life in the water and turn back into aquatic animals after living on land for about two and a half years. Of the European salamanders, the fire salamander is the most famous. Its length is approximately 23 centimeters, and if frightened, it releases a poisonous liquid.

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