via Wired Top Stories by Danielle Venton on 6/22/11
Golden orb spiders normally use gravity when building the long lines that radiate from the web's center -- occasionally letting go to drop to the ground. But in space, there's no gravity, so spiders just float instead of dropping. Watch this time-lapse video of a spider spinning, hunting and capturing fruit flies aboard the International Space Station.
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