Love in the Time of Tarantulas? Newfound Spider Named for Márquez
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 15:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A fearsome tarantula covered in bizarre "attack" hairs has been discovered in a mountain range in Colombia. As an homage to the country where the new species was found, scientists named it Kankuamo marquezi, after Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez.