Newly Discovered Sand Spider Threatened by Mining

Image credit: Photo by Yael Olek, courtesy of the University of Haifa While conducting research in the Sands of Samar in the southern Arava region of Israel, a team from the department of biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim discovered a new species of sand spider. The spider, which has a leg span larger than five inches, is thought to be the largest of its type native to the Middle East

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Newly Discovered Sand Spider Threatened by Mining

Builders’ Show Presents "The Most Innovative Home Never Built"

Every year the home builders get together for the monster International Home Builders Show; last year they moved it to Las Vegas because Orlando wasn’t big enough, just in time for the biggest meltdown of the residential construction industry ever.

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Builders’ Show Presents "The Most Innovative Home Never Built"