Researchers from the San Diego Natural
History Museum along with other experts recently unveiled a new spider
species found in Mexico that is roughly the size of a softball, reports Deborah Sullivan Brennan at the Los Angeles Times.
According to a blog post from the museum,
in 2013 field entomologist Jim Berrian and a team of researchers found
the spider while exploring the Sierra Cacachilas, a small mountain range
in Baja California Sur in Mexico. Investigating a cave in the area,
they noticed a giant exoskeleton hanging from the ceiling.
Instead of
running back to their hotel and hiding under the covers, they decided to
return that night, since they identified the spider as belonging to a
genus of arachnids that are often nocturnal. That night, in the darkened
cave, the team got their first look at what is now known as Califorctenus cacachilensis, or the Sierra Cacachilas wandering spider. The official description of the new spider appears in the journal Zootaxa…
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