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Terrifying study reveals spiders can actually 'hear' you from across the room

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Scientists have found a new kind of spider sense that we didn't know about before.

Even though spiders don't have ears, it turns out they can still 'hear' you coming by picking up vibrations in the air through the hairs on their legs.

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