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Spiders come back to life after drowning in water. Marsh-dwelling French-type wolf spiders do, that is.

In an experiment at the University of Rennes testing how long it takes spiders to drown, a surprise happened while they were letting the dead spiders dry out for dissection and whatever it is they do to dead arachnids. The original plan was to poke different types of wolf spiders while immersed in water to see if they responded. The types that responded the longest won the Stay Alive The Longest Contest — two marsh-dwelling types stayed alive longest (28 and 36 hours), over the 24 hours for the forest-dwelling types. All of them DIED so no real winners in that race.

Until.

Hours later, the spiders began twitching and were soon back on their eight feet.

“This is the first time we know of arthropods returning to life from comas after submersion,” said lead researcher Julien Pétillon, an arachnologist now at Ghent University in Belgium.

Marsh-dwelling [Arctosa] fulvolineata, which took longest to “die,” typically requires about two hours to recover, the researchers discovered.

In the wild, the species doesn’t avoid water during flooding, while the other salt marsh species generally climbs onto vegetation to avoid advancing water.

The spiders’ survival trick depends on a switch to metabolic processes—the processes that provide energy for vital functions in the body—that do not require air, the researchers speculate.

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Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise National Geographic
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Saturday the cuz showed us the beach towns around the San Diego area. Beach towns are little places along the shore that have their own bit of beach land to their name; they’re like little suburbs of the greater San Diego area. We began our journey in the little shopping area near chellchelle’s apartment. She gets a fancy pants McDonald’s. No really! It’s a working concept model McDonald’s. We were assured that no matter how fancy this McDonald’s is, In-n-Out Burger’s taste will win our hearts and tastebuds over. Sure, Chelle. If you say so. After nomming bagels, our tour guide took us to the beaches. Stores, restaurants, bars, and galleries galore. There are a LOT of art galleries in these places. Some were super upscale, others were more crafty and cut it close labeling themselves as actual galleries. I think those ones called themselves malls of some sort to cover their hides. We visited Del Mar, La Jolla, Encinitas, Carlsbad, and Solanas Beaches. Encinitas was the most intriguing to me, but La Jolla has seals. Lots of seals! and mussels as we caught the shore at low tide.

Only after hanging out with the seals did we see that we are to be warned! They are quite ferocious!



After our beachy endeavor, Chelle took us to the best place she knew: In-n-Out. Mom and I had been told repeatedly how wonderful the fresh made burgers are, how awesome the special sauce tastes, how yummy the fries are, and our final decision?



AWESOME SAUCE. It’s a great burger. The menu has three burger choices: the double double, the cheeseburger, and the regular hamburger. These burgers taste like the kind you make on your grill in the backyard with a hint of “this was made in a fast food joint.” The big thang with these guys is they don’t freeze their meat. Unfortunately for people like me, In-n-Out is a California-based restaurant, as in only in California.

So ended our Chelle-hosted tour, day one and a half of San Diego’s beach communities.

Here’s a map for those of you who are keeping score at home!