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If you’re terrified of spiders, you’ll be more afraid of the eight-legged creature now because scientists have revealed that spiders can wipe out the entire human race in just a year!
The research conducted by Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland and Klaus Nirkhofer from the Lund University in Sweden found that the spiders in the world can consume about 400 million to 800 million tons of prey in a year. That’s twice as much as the 400 million tons of meat and fish that humans eat in a year!
Here’s where is gets more interesting. If every adult human is placed on a weighing scale, they would only weigh 316.3 million tons—which is lesser than the amount spiders consume. This means that the world’s spider population—a total of 29 million tons of them—can consume all humans… and still feel unsatisfied!
The scientists also said that there’s a possibility of the spiders attacking humans if they no longer have other source of food!
That’s enough information to give us nightmares. Time to pack up and start looking for another planet to move to.
Info via Elite Readers
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