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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

UNCOVERED: Australian spider declared worlds fastest after record breaking sprint - The Untold Story

An Australian jungle huntsman spider is the world’s fastest arachnid, reaching a top speed of almost 3.6 metres per second, according to a new lab study.

For a long time, the Moroccan flic-flac spider was considered to be the world’s fastest, with a speed of nearly 1.7m/s, but some experts didn’t agree that this is a type of sprinting locomotion.

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