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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ms04cDH50 I’ve never understood the phobia about spiders. I know people who live in mortal fear of them, but to me they’re just friendly little visitors to my home, being neighborly and eating the annoying bugs and flies. So, depending on how you come down on spiders, this video either comes with an enthusiastic encouragement or a trigger warning. It shows how a 410 million-year-old spiderish creature called a trigonotarbid arachnid might have crawled about. Researchers from The University of Manchester and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin studied fossils from the Natural History Museum in London to work out the range of motion of the trigonotarbid’s limbs and create the computer animation. The trigonotarbid was one of the first land predators. The fact that early arachnids were among the first things to walk the earth and go, “Hey, I should kill things here!” doesn’t help their rep, I know. “When it comes to early life on land, long before our ancestors came out of the sea, these early arachnids were top