Lam Soon Tak (Malaysia) spots a vibrantly coloured David Bowie spider carrying an egg sac. Lam was exploring the highlands of Malaysia when he came across this spider perched on broken branches beside ...

In 2008, when an orange-haired, ornately patterned spider was found in Malaysia, it was named Heteropoda davidbowie. In 2010 a whale fossil made a splash when it was dubbed Leviathan melvillei.

The brown widow spider has a distinctive hourglass-shaped mark on its belly that is tan or orange in colour. Photo: TNS A poisonous spider, once confined to Africa, is slowly spreading around the ...