HU Team Finds Seven New Spider Species in Israeli Caves

HU Team Finds Seven New Spider Species in Israeli Caves
21st February 2023 Lindy Diamond

A team from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Madison-Wisconsin has found seven spider species previously unknown to sciences in the depths of Israeli caves, with the surprise finding that they are evolutionarily closer to arachnids found in southern Europe than to their neighbours at cave entrances in Israel.

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