Scientists Discover Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Bilateral Gynandromorph Of A New Spider Species

This pocket-sized new spider is rocking a unique look. Near perfectly split down the middle, its left legs are dark orange while its right is a whitish salt-and-pepper color. Remarkably, this is not just an aesthetic division: one side of the body is female and the other is male. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Scientists at Chulalongkorn University and Ubon Ratchathani University were recently surveying a forested area of Phanom Thuan in Western Thailand, not far from the capital, Bangkok, when they came across a new species of spider.

The species was particularly fascinating because it exhibited clear sexual dimorphism, a term used to describe when males and females of the same species appear visibly different.

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