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Dangerous spiders in Europe: How worried should we really be?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you were asked to name a place where venomous animals live, what comes to mind? Perhaps Australia, home to notorious snakes like the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), or terrifying creatures like the yellow scorpion (Tityus serrulatus) It may be Brazil, where it lives. But Europe is not known for its menacing fauna, so it will…