In case we didn’t wake up to enough fear, headlines this week shared that that a massive funnel-web spider with fangs capable of piercing human fingernails has been found. (Even though it was found in Australia, the spider will find a way to show up in your dreams at night). The half dinosaur, half spider was turned in by an anonymous person in a Tupperware container without any labels. They are not sure where it came from or if there are more. Bad news, right!? Except if you are an arachnologist and a part of the scientist team that takes the venom and creates antivenom. If you are part of that team, you see the huge (pun intended) life-saving potential in finding more spiders like this that can produce large amounts of venom. Turns out the massive spider is good news.
