These spiders may have the world’s fastest body clocks
Three arachnid species experience the equivalent of five-hour jet lag every day

TIME WARP This spiny orb weaver and two of its relatives may have evolved an impossibly short circadian clock by spinning their webs before dawn to avoid predators.
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