Bizarre Assassin Spiders Discovered in Madagascar

[The Red Queen]

Has anyone else seen this?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0308_060308_spider.html

Very cool!

 

[Galapoheros]

Now THAT'S weird. Madagascar is where the good stuff is.

 

[edesign]

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=60985

i'll give you a break tho that was a month ago after all lol...

 

[The Red Queen]

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=60985

i'll give you a break tho that was a month ago after all lol...

Oops! Thanks

But at least give me credit for it being a different link

 

[jwasted]

Wow that thing is kewl!

 

[quinquestriatus]

Still awesome to see the pic. Very cool spider.

 

[Anthony]

A very unusual spider, thanks for sharing

 

[buthus]

Wow... missed this one. Evolution blows my mind!

 

[syndicate]

wow very cool.arent these related to one of the most primative spiders?

 

[SouthernStyle]

NOW...Who's up for a Collecting trip?!? I WANT ONE! LOL! What a cool looking spider, NTM an Awesome article! Thanks for Sharin'

 

[Ando55]

Really out of the ordinary! WOW, Amazing to look at the body traits.

 

[Code Monkey]

The guy who photographed that presented at casual night during last years AAS conference, really funny guy with a dream job. Essentially, National Geographic was paying for him and small team to catalog diversity of assassin spiders and another group I don't recall at the moment in Africa and Madagascar. In turn, NG gets to publish the wicked photographs.

He talked about how amazed he was at the popularity of that particular photo and brought up this webpage someone made with his photo as his statement that he had "made it" .

 

[lucanidae]

I don't think everyone would be so excited to have one if they saw them in person....these things are TINY!

wow very cool.arent these related to one of the most primative spiders?

Not really. They are highly derived Araneomorphs that share very few characteristics with the Mesothelidae, which are the most primitive spiders.

 

[Parahybana3590]

Man...madagascar has the coolest bugs in the world...Why cant we have something like that over here?

 

[Steven Gielis]

I've looked for some pictures of these species and I found one in "the biology of spiders". Buth the picture shown in the link looks a bit strange. The "neck" of the animals looks like two sticks? Or is that another organ egainst the "neck"?