Blind Spider Than 850 new species found during surveys in the Australian underground habitats, spiders are blind, was "totally unexpected things in unexpected places," team member Steve Cooper, from the South Australian Museum, said in October 2009. For example, a scientist found an arachnid in western Australia, dry pastureland that has been estimated to exist only in the rainforest - the first time in a group of species ever found in Australia, Cooper said. |