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JUNE 7: A newly discovered Australian Peacock spider – Maratus Bubo – shows off its colorful, iridescent abdomen. Jurgen Otto, with the help of colleague David Knowles, discovered the tiny creatures while looking for other spiders in Western Australia in November. With its showy colors on display the 3 mm males perform a courtship dance for females, to impress them, Otto says.
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