TIL Earth's electric field can make spiders propel into the air and fly across entire oceans
TIL Earth's electric field can make spiders propel into the air and fly across entire oceans
www.pbs.org Spiders fly on the currents of Earth's electric field
Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, but a new study shows the Earth’s electric field can propel these flying arachnids too.
