This is pretty neat ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/hook-legged-spider-120818.html

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"A group of cave explorers and scientists have made a rare discovery: an entirely new taxonomic family of spider in the caves of southern Oregon. Only two other spider families (the taxonomic group above both genus and species) have been found since 1990, and this is the first newly discovered, native one uncovered in North America since 1890, said California Academy of Sciences researcher Charles Griswold, lead author of the study that described the species. So far, the family consists only of the one species described, which the researchers named Trogloraptor marchingtoni. The species is named after Neil Marchington, a member of the Western Cave Conservancy, who first discovered the spider. The genus name, Trogloraptor, means "cave robber.""

i love science

8/20/2012 4:02:42 PM

I am going to name my kid Trogloraptor.

8/20/2012 4:04:40 PM

I'd kill it with fire.

8/20/2012 4:05:37 PM

nope.

8/20/2012 4:05:55 PM

Trogloraptor

8/20/2012 4:07:35 PM

8/20/2012 4:17:50 PM

Trogloraptor sounds pretty badass.

8/20/2012 5:29:57 PM

id kill...

















...for that waistline

8/20/2012 5:44:02 PM

klatypus is so jelly

8/20/2012 9:01:41 PM

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"Charles Griswold"

8/20/2012 9:46:15 PM

bad ass.

8/26/2012 9:54:52 AM

8/26/2012 10:29:06 AM

don't kill all the newly described spiders trogdoor!

8/26/2012 10:31:58 AM