Stranger than fiction? New spiders found in Brazil named after creatures from popular fantasy stories

Mongabay
Jan 24, 2018, 4:51 pm279 pts
The worlds created by fantasy authors like J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling are perhaps best known for their magicians and mythical beasts like dragons, but it would appear one real-life creature, the spider, is just as mysterious to some people, because spiders have often been featured prominently as…

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