Camel spiders are fast, and they might chase a human who runs away — but it’s not what you think. According to the Defense Agency of Public Health, they’re simply chasing your shadow. Camel spiders ...

Some animals have a reputation that's hard to shake. Take the camel spider: Many are familiar with them based on photos that came out of the Iraq War in the early 2000s: a giant desert spider with a ...

Camel spiders eat the stomachs of camels and lay their eggs there, hence the name "camel spider." (Legend includes the detail that camel spiders eat camel stomachs from either the outside in or ...

Photo Credit: JLplusAL. The camel spider - also known as the wind scorpion or sun spider - has taken its place amongst many tall tales and urban legends. They are technically not spiders (which are ...

Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. ... Although sun spiders do not seem to want to eat ants, they will kill large numbers of them at once.