Not a spider

I spotted this "daddy longlegs" this weekend, and switched my camera to its macro setting for this photo (click the photo for a much expanded and detailed version): img_28361 I looked it up today on Wikipedia and found out, to my surprise, that this animal is not technically a spider (even though it is an arachnid). Rather than a "spider" daddy longlegs are "harvestmen," belonging to the order Opiliones (spiders belong to the order "aranea."

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Video of nature by the numbers

If you like nature and you like numbers, you'll love this short video, "Nature by the Numbers." The video features real life instances of Fibonacci numbers, the Golden Angle and Ratio, and Delaunay triangulation. If you'd like to know more about the math illustrated in the video, visit this accompanying link.

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