Considering that I am a self-confessed Arachno-nerd (Arachnerd?), it would be thoroughly remiss of me not to mention the news of a newly-described species of trapdoor spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
Numerous news outlets are picking up on this for the novelty angle that it's named in honour of Neil Young. Yahoo news, for instance, documents the discovery here. This of course dominates web coverage of the spider, so it's a little tricky to geek out on properly, but the East Carolina University, where the taxonomy work was done, has an official piece here.
One of these days, when I have time, I may try to track down the original paper and really geek out, but for now I guess the news and the picture will suffice.
UPDATE: The original paper was published by the AMNH and can be found via this link.
posted @ Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:25 PM