Spiders have very small mouths. And just like spiders, the insects that are their prey have hard outer bodies. In order to eat their prey, spiders use their strong jaws to puncture the hard outer bodies of insects they have caught. They then throw up special juices from their stomachs into the insect's soft inner body. Within seconds, whatever these juices touch turns into liquid. The spider then sucks the inside of the insect dry and eventually all that is left is the hard insect outer body suit.
Science Builds A Better Guinea Pig
Science Builds A Better Guinea Pig Scientists say they have for the first time
genetically modified a monkey with high hopes of it being a missing
link between people and primates for medical research. The three
month old male rhesus monkey [nicknamed ANDi—“inserted
DNA spelled backward] carries the green fluorescent gene from a
jellyfish in its DNA. Its creators in Portland, Oregon say that the
monkey shows that researchers should be able to insert genes that
cause human disease into our primate cousins for use as the
ultimate guinea pigs. JANUARY 12, 2001
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