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Malaysia | Specimen of new spider species, allegedly poached from NP, sets off science ethics row

In February, the Journal of the British Tarantula Society published a paper describing a new species of tarantula, which was discovered in a national park in Sarawak, Malaysia. While the male of the species was an unremarkable brown, the female had eye-catching, electric blue legs.


New spiders are discovered all the time, and the paper likely would have gone largely unnoticed — were it not for an article in Science magazine that appeared soon afterward.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/science/poaching-wildlife-scientists.html

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