Saturday, 9 September 2017

The world's most beautiful spiders? Five new species of 'dancing' peacock arachnid are found in Australia

At first glance, you might mistake these brightly-coloured spiders for mythical creatures from the latest science fiction blockbuster.
But the spiders are very much real, and were spotted in Western Australia by the self-proclaimed 'peacock spiderman', Dr Jurgen Otto.
Dr Otto has recently discovered five new species of the 'dancing' spiders - the males of which are brightly coloured to help them attract a mate.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4857394/Stunning-images-five-new-species-peacock-spiders.html#ixzz4sBf1gFtf
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