Eeek! Just as well they are small ...

Assassin spiders - 2mm long arachnids with elongated jaws (and necks) that were once globally distributed but are now only found in Australia, South Africa and Madagascar. In the latter, nine new species have been recently found by California Academy of Sciences researchers, Charles Griswold and Hannah Wood. Check this out ...

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Wow. Darwin would have loved that!

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Argh! I will note that Afarensis beat me to this story by four minutes!

But my picture is bigger :)

By John Lynch (not verified) on 12 Feb 2006 #permalink

Can't tell what I'm looking at there.