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.
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 ...
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.