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Reviewed on October 1, 2016 | Elementary
Gr 1–3—In 2012, a jumping spider named Nefertiti spent 100 days aboard the International Space Station as part of an experiment proposed by 18-year-old Amr Mohamed, from Alexandria, Egypt. While the story itself is full of exciting potential, this rendition fails to take off. The brief description of the hunting practices of this species is misleading in its simplicity ("On earth, a spider would jump to catch its food and then land on the ground"), and readers wo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More