The week in small animals: Small is not always cute
These tiny spider-like creatures just stopped a 10 billion dollar mining project in Western Australia this week. Blind as a bat and 4mm long, the nasty little critters are a type of “troglobite,” a term just meaning cave dweller. Like vampires or gremlins, the light of the sun will kill them.
I’m not sure why the article is calling them spider-like. Since troglobite is a general term, these would seem to be troglobite spiders. But I think the photo is from elsewhere, and may not represent whatever they found.
