9 Facts About Nature That Will Blow Your Mind

Some spider webs are so powerful that they can withstand a storm. When a single thread breaks, the entire web gets stronger. The nursery web spider gets its name from the fact that she utilises her web to protect her young. And she’s worth keeping an eye on since she likes to consume the male after mating.

There was a period when no microorganisms existed to help a tree degrade. The trees that lived 300 million years ago are not the same as the trees that exist today on the planet. These trees may grow to be very tall, but their root systems were shallow, thus they readily fell over. There were no bacteria there at the time that could decompose these trees, so as they fell, they piled up on top of each other, either forming a blessing or a curse.

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