This is the first video footage released of a potential new species of spider in the Amazon rainforest:
The full article of the discovery can be found here.
Though the strategy of making decoys from debris is by no means unusual in the animal kingdom, those created by this tiny spider are far and away the most accurate yet discovered.
The discoverers are calling for suggestions as to what this new species, if confirmed, should be named. I suggested the Poe Spider, since it's pretending to be something that it's not. That or Cyril.
The full article of the discovery can be found here.
Though the strategy of making decoys from debris is by no means unusual in the animal kingdom, those created by this tiny spider are far and away the most accurate yet discovered.
The discoverers are calling for suggestions as to what this new species, if confirmed, should be named. I suggested the Poe Spider, since it's pretending to be something that it's not. That or Cyril.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'