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r/BeAmazed • u/chinese_spongebob1 • 6h ago
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For those interested this appears to be (appropriately) called the leaf-mimicking spider. It's found in southern China in tropical forests and seems to have been discovered in 2016.
9 u/Oil_On_Canvas 4h ago That's fairly recent 5 u/Shnoinky1 2h ago It's also rarely fecent 3 u/Veritas3333 3h ago Everyone else who discovered it first never made it out of the forest alive 2 u/FantasticChestHair 29m ago We discover hundreds to thousands of new species every year. Most being insects, bacteria, fungi etc 1 u/IaAranaDiscotecaPOL 3h ago About 10 years ago. There’s a lot of dates before 2016, fewer after.
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That's fairly recent
5 u/Shnoinky1 2h ago It's also rarely fecent 3 u/Veritas3333 3h ago Everyone else who discovered it first never made it out of the forest alive 2 u/FantasticChestHair 29m ago We discover hundreds to thousands of new species every year. Most being insects, bacteria, fungi etc 1 u/IaAranaDiscotecaPOL 3h ago About 10 years ago. There’s a lot of dates before 2016, fewer after.
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It's also rarely fecent
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Everyone else who discovered it first never made it out of the forest alive
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We discover hundreds to thousands of new species every year. Most being insects, bacteria, fungi etc
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About 10 years ago. There’s a lot of dates before 2016, fewer after.
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u/Boccs 4h ago edited 3h ago
For those interested this appears to be (appropriately) called the leaf-mimicking spider. It's found in southern China in tropical forests and seems to have been discovered in 2016.