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Officials thrilled as rare 'missing link' spider makes comeback in hidden cave: 'Evolved separately from the rest of the world for millions of years'
As The Kansas City Star reported, sightings of the Nelson cave spider jumped fourfold in three years after its habitat was ...
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Bizarre New Spider Species Discovered in New Zealand - MSN
Afascinating discovery has emerged from New Zealand’s South Island, where researchers have identified an entirely new genus of jumping spiders. This genus, named Ourea, consists of 12 different ...
They visited 19 alpine sites altogether and collected 170 spiders for analysis (oh, to be a scientist hiking Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island in search of adorable spiders).
An average of 33 Nelson cave spiders were counted in “Crazy Paving Cave” in 2025, up from eight in 2022, according to officials. Photo by Sebastian Doak shared by New Zealand's Department of ...
Named after the Māori word, katipō, which translates to “night-stinger”, the Latrodectus katipo spider has gained an almost mythical status in New Zealand, where it’s notorious but rarely seen, and so ...
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