Tue. 07/26 - The Best Failed Inventions

Let’s take a visit to the Museum of Failure. Plus, robot spider zombies. Not a new comic book series, but an actual experiment from mechanical engineers in Texas. And the Earth’s earliest animal predator has been named after David Attenborough.

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Links:

• Museum of Failure thread (Trung Phan, Twitter)
• Museum of Failure
• Scientists Are Turning Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobots' And We Are So Creeped Out (ScienceAlert)
• 'Necrobotic' spiders: Manipulating dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers (Phys.org)
• Researchers Turn Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobotic' Grippers (CNET)
• ‘Earliest animal predator’ named after David Attenborough (NBC News)
• Ancient fossil is earliest known animal predator (BBC)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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