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World’s First Eyeless Huntsman Spider Discovered

by Megan Gannon

Peter Jäger, head of arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, reported that he found the spider in a cave in Laos, in Southeast Asia, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) away from the gigantic Xe Bang Fai river cave. Named Sinopoda scurion, it is the first eyeless species of the 1,100 known species of huntsman spider…

(read more: Live Science)       (images: Peter Jäger)

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