Word: spidermen
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...Herbert Levi, the museum's associate curator of arachnology, and one of the world's leading spidermen, discovered the first laeta lurking in a cabinet of dead myriapods (millepedes and centipedes) in September 1960. Levi promptly identified the male spider, but he paid no further attention, thinking the laeta was a lonely stowaway that had come to town in a shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them...
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