I couldn’t quite believe my eyes when I first saw
Maratus sceletus, an amazing new discovery from Australia. The American PhD student who first came across this remarkable species of peacock spider in Australia immediately nicknamed it
Skeletorus – and you can see why. The arch-villain of the
He-Man franchise now has a spider named after him! Our sibling site, the
Ark in Space, has a picture feature on
Skeletorus, telling the story from its discovery in late 2013 to how it came to join the peacock spider family (it’s quite a tale!).
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