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Female wolf spiders can't mate until their sexual organs mature after their final moult, Hebets said. After the females were old enough to mate, the experiment was repeated.

The Taiwanese tree-dwelling wolf spider is considered “large,” reaching about 0.8 inches in size, the study said. It has eight eyes, strong legs and a hairy body with a “heart-like” shape.

Wolf spiders are hard to miss but interestingly, they don’t make a nest or web, Brown explained. Rather, they capitalize on particularly keen eyesight and impressive speed and actively hunt.

Chinese scientist Mi Xiaoqi and his team have named 16 newly discovered spider species after Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou's songs, hoping to make scientific research more engaging for the public.

BEIJING: A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular “Mandopop” musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou ...