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 ...
Wow. Darwin would have loved that!
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But my picture is bigger :)
Can't tell what I'm looking at there.