My, What Big Front Claws You Have...
Aug. 17th, 2012 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saoneNew family of spiders found in Oregon cave - Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed it Trogloraptor — Latin for cave robber — for their fearsome front claws...
Entomologists there say the spider — reddish brown and the size of a half dollar — evolved so distinctly that it requires its own taxonomic family — the first new spider family found in North America since the 1870s.
Wow. I think I would probably need more than just a cup and a piece of cardboard to get one of those out of the house.
Entomologists there say the spider — reddish brown and the size of a half dollar — evolved so distinctly that it requires its own taxonomic family — the first new spider family found in North America since the 1870s.
Wow. I think I would probably need more than just a cup and a piece of cardboard to get one of those out of the house.