The spider is thought to have got onto the plane ... a spotted python was found onboard one of the airline's domestic flights in Malaysia traveling from the capital Kuala Lumpur to Sabah.

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 ...

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.