Spiders could eat up every human on the planet within less than a YEAR, researchers calculate

 

, experts said that if you add up the weight of all the food eaten by the world's entire spider population in a single year is less than the combined weight of every human on the planet.

Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland and Klaus Birkhofer of Lund University in Sweden and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg in Germany, published their findings in the journal Science of Nature this month.

They discovered spiders across the globe consume between 400 and 800 million tonnes of prey in any given year.

That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all seven billion humans on the planet combined, who the authors note consume about 400 million tonnes of meat and fish each year.

The Post said they also highlighted a disturbing comparison - the total biomass of all adult humans on earth is estimated to be 287 million tonnes.

Even if you tack on another 70 million or so tonnes to account for the weight of kids, it's still not equal to the total amount of food eaten by spiders in a given year, exceeding the total weight of humanity.

In other words, spiders could eat all of us and still be hungry.

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