New Spider species named after David Attenborough
A new species of spider was named after the British naturalist and
famous TV
Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. The species prethopalpus attenboroughi is found only on Horn island in the Torres Strait in Queensland,
Australia.
The other name of Prethopalpus
is goblin spider.
Earlier a fossil of a fish Materpiscis attenboroughi that existed
380 million years ago was named after Sir David.
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