An Australian zoo has found its biggest-ever funnel-web spider. Its name is Hemsworth
A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the ...
Spinning a tune: Chinese scientist names new spider species after pop songs
A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular "Mandopop" musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China's southwestern Guizhou province, listed ...
Vampire hedgehogs, pirate spiders and fishy fungi - the strangest new species of 2024
Another of 2024's mysterious plant discoveries made by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was a species of rattan ...
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Spinning a tune: Chinese scientist names new spider species after pop songs
A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular "Mandopop" musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China's southwestern Guizhou province ...
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Chinese scientist names spider species after pop songs
BEIJING: A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular “Mandopop” musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou ...
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Spinning a tune: Chinese scientist names new spider species after pop songs
One of the arachnids -- the 3.5-millimetre long Cyclosa xingqing sp. nov. or "Starry Mood spider" -- is named after a hit love song from Chou's debut album "Jay" released in 2000. Others are named ...