Category: Species Discovery

March 23, 2019January 29, 2020

Stormtrooper (Spiders) in Colombia

Stormtropis musica. Photo credit: Carlos Perafan. The stormtroopers have arrived. Six new species of bald-legged spiders were discovered in Colombia, by Drs Carlos Perafan and Fernando Perez-Miles of the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay and William Galvis of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Four of the species did not fit […]

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019

Jumping spiders that make milk for their babies

Photo credit: Dr. Zhanqi Chen Birds don’t do it, bees don’t do it, even educated fleas don’t do it. When it comes to babies drinking milk, breastfeeding probably comes to mind. If you’re Australian, or well versed in biology, you might also think of marsupials (which, although they produce milk, should you […]