Arya News - Researchers trekking the remote Himalayas to study ants stumbled onto something unexpected lurking under a leaf, and it rewrites everything scientists thought they knew about one of the world`s most c...
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Sometimes it can be easy to forget how huge our world is. There are many areas that are hard to access, largely because of their climate or geography. For example, dense rainforests can be hard to navigate. Remote areas of the Himalayas have steep terrain, while Siberia’s extremely cold temperatures make travel nearly impossible for some parts of the year. To me, the most fascinating part of contemplating untouched nature is wondering about the species and creatures we have yet to discover. In fact, a 2021 study published in suggests we’ve only discovered 13-18% of living species . But what else is out there? As researchers have just learned, there is the Himalayan happy-face spider ().
The Himalayan happy-face spider is only the second known species of happy-face spider, joining the Hawaiian happy-face spider (). is found on the four Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Molokai. So, as you can imagine, researchers were surprised to find happy-face spiders in the mountainous state of Uttarakhand in India. Funnily enough, the mission to the mountains was not originally designed to find spiders. Yet the research team discovered an entirely new species and completely changed what we know about happy-face spiders.
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