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In Time For Halloween: 9 New Tarantula Species Discovered

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-my-parlor dept.

Damien1972 writes "If you suffer from acute arachnophobia, this is the perfect Halloween discovery for you: a spider expert has discovered nine new species of arboreal tarantulas in Brazil. Although tarantula diversity is highest in the Amazon rain-forest, the new species are all found in lesser-known Brazilian ecosystems like the Atlantic Forest and the cerrado."

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  1. multi coloured by Thorfinn.au · · Score: 3, Informative

    These newly found spiders are in many colours not usually associated with arachnids, such as pink and purple
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