Huge Whip Spiders Wear Nail Polish for Science | Expedition Raw

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“You can only describe the tropical whip spider as evolution’s perfect design for an arthropod killing machine,” says Verner Bingman, a behavioral neuroscientist and National Geographic grantee.
While whip spiders are arachnids that fall under the arthropod phylum, they’re not actually spiders. Whip spiders have eight legs, but the front two have evolved into antenniform legs that extend up to two feet long. These legs wiggle around like whips to gather sensory information, earning whip spiders their name. The arachnids also have appendages called pedipalps, which Bingman describes as being like “pliers with sharp teeth.”
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