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Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath bird eating tarantula.

Discusses the work scientists are doing with the golden orb weaver spider, whose web silk is nearly indestructible, and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins needed to artificially spin the spider silk and produce it in a quantity that will make it realistic to use in health care, in body armor, in parachutes, and much more.