If you think about where the most dangerous and disgusting creatures in the world live, you will find a lot of them. Australia You choose. The continent is home to some of the world's deadliest creatures, especially spiders, with even the gentle creatures looking like they came out of a horror movie – and still quite tame compared to their ancestors.
Scientists have also made a world-first discovery in New South Wales: the world's first trapdoor spider. The spider, which belonged to the Barychelidae family and lived around 11-16 million years ago, was named Megamonodontium mccluskyi and was huge, as you can see in the video.
There are only four in all of Australia, said Matthew Macari, a paleontologist at the University of New South Wales. spider fossil They have not been found until now, which is why it is very difficult for scientists to understand the history of the animal's evolution: which is why the current discovery is so important, because it provides new information about the extinction of spiders at that time.
The closest living relatives to the fossil now live in the rainforests of Singapore and Papua New Guinea, suggesting that Australia may have had a similar climate at one time, but as droughts spread, so did this giant spider, Macari said.
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This discovery is very important for the scientific world, as it is the second largest spider fossil in history. The body diameter of the newly found specimen is about 23.31 mm, and if you stretched your legs, you could easily reach the ends of a person's palm.
Robert Raven, an arachnologist at the Queensland Museum, was very excited about the discovery. He said the finding was significant because spiders fossilise relatively rarely, unlike other animals.
