{"id":161321,"date":"2023-03-30T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-discover-giant-red-spider-that-can-live-for-20-years"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:25:43","slug":"scientists-discover-giant-red-spider-that-can-live-for-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-discover-giant-red-spider-that-can-live-for-20-years","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Giant Red Spider That Can Live for 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-giant-red-spider-that-can-live-for-20-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian scientists have just discovered a new species of arachnid, dubbed the giant trapdoor spider, in Queensland. It\u2019s huge, bright red, and it can live for up to two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Before you panic, we should note that trapdoor spiders aren\u2019t considered a threat to humans. While they <em>are<\/em> venomous, their bites aren\u2019t known to have any lasting effect on people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/65038678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports the <em>BBC<\/em><\/a>. Besides, hikers rarely encounter them; the spiders are nocturnal and spend most of their lives underground. And while they\u2019re big for trapdoor spiders, they\u2019re not as massive as, say, tarantulas or <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/seeking-avoiding-scorpions\/\">giant desert scorpions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Female giant trapdoor spiders can grow up to two inches long. That\u2019s about twice the size of other trapdoor spiders. Male trapdoor spiders are slightly smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientists have just discovered a new species of arachnid, dubbed the giant trapdoor spider, in Queensland. It\u2019s huge, bright red, and it can live for up to two decades. Before you panic, we should note that trapdoor spiders aren\u2019t considered a threat to humans. While they are venomous, their bites aren\u2019t known to have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}