New family of spiders found in US cave

Updated August 31 2012 - 10:09am, first published August 18 2012 - 7:00pm
A specimen of a new family of spiders, which scientists are calling cave robber for its fearsome claws.
A specimen of a new family of spiders, which scientists are calling cave robber for its fearsome claws.
The fearsome claw of a new family of spider, which led to naming it Trogloraptor, or cave robber.
The fearsome claw of a new family of spider, which led to naming it Trogloraptor, or cave robber.

Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed it Trogloraptor - Latin for cave robber - for their fearsome front claws.

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