{"id":80387,"date":"2018-07-05T11:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/mystery-of-charles-darwins-flying-spiders-solved-they-harness-electricity"},"modified":"2018-07-05T19:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T02:29:21","slug":"mystery-of-charles-darwins-flying-spiders-solved-they-harness-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/mystery-of-charles-darwins-flying-spiders-solved-they-harness-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of Charles Darwin\u2019s flying spiders solved \u2014 they harness electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-of-charles-darwins-flying-spiders-solved-they-harness-electricity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might assume that evolution gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/charles-darwin\/\">Charles Darwin<\/a> enough to ponder during his five year voyage on The Beagle.<\/p>\n<p>But of all the phenomena the naturalist encountered circumnavigating the globe, it was the flight of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/05\/08\/spider-taught-jump-command-bid-create-army-pest-fighting-robots\/\">spiders<\/a> which continued to puzzle him.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin noticed that hundreds of spiders would inexplicably land on the Beagle even on a calm day without any wind to blow them on board.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/07\/05\/mystery-charles-darwins-flying-spiders-solved-harness-electricity\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/07\/05\/mystery-charl...ectricity\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might assume that evolution gave Charles Darwin enough to ponder during his five year voyage on The Beagle. But of all the phenomena the naturalist encountered circumnavigating the globe, it was the flight of spiders which continued to puzzle him. Darwin noticed that hundreds of spiders would inexplicably land on the Beagle even on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80387","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=80387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80398,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80387\/revisions\/80398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}