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Once upon a time there were these spiders that learned to spin the finest web that anyone had ever seen. What was so special about this web was that it acted just like a sail or a wing. When the wind blew it would send the spider sailing off into the air.
The spiders could go ever so high and fly all over the world. The only problem was that up in the sky there wasn't much to eat, and soon the spiders would become hungry. What they did then was to eat their very own web.
But when they ate their web their sail got smaller and little by little the spiders would sail lower and lower until they were back to Earth. It was so much fun that millions of spiders learned to make sail webs and fly through the skies.
Scientists dressed in white coats heard about the sailing spiders and didn't know if it was true or not.
So the scientists decided to find out one way or another by conducting a scientific experiment. The scientists got in their friend's airplane and took off into the air. When they were very high up they opened the window of the plane and stuck out a net.
Guess what happened. When the scientists looked in their nets, they saw that they were full of spiders. And that's how we know for sure that spiders, like people, can learn to fly. |
