Meet the daddy short legs.
Scientists have genetically engineered the critters known as daddy long legs to create a mutated version with, well, short legs, in an effort to study how arachnids' genomes evolve over time — and why their creepy legs grow so lengthy in the first place,The media has largely presented the work as cute, and it may well bolster our understanding of genetics.
The grisly result: six of the harvestmen's eight legs were underdeveloped and much shorter, as detailed in
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