Fastest spider in the world? This huge, hairy-legged Australian arachnid may be the quickest on the planet

The Guardian reports that scientists in the UK and Germany have identified what may be the fastest spider on the planet—an Australian brown huntsman. After analyzing more than two hundred fifty spider species, the researchers determined this massive, hairy-legged arachnid to be the quickest of them all.

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