Nine new species of trapdoor spiders from the genus Stasimopus, all from South Africa’s arid Karoo region, have been described in a paper in Zootaxa. One of the species, Stasimopus ignis, was ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A trapdoor spider, known only as “Number 16,” was first ...
In November 2021, a message was circulated on social media warning people about a dangerous "beach spider" whose poisonous bite could kill a human in five minutes. While the photographs attached to ...
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