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Meet Pseudanapis yasunica Zamani & Marusik, 2024 from Ecuador! 🇪🇨 With a total body length of only 0.93 mm, this tiny spider is officially the 200th species of arachnids that I have described and named!

Getting an unsolicited picture in your DMs is rarely a positive thing. But when Alireza Zamani received a message on Instagram, it led him to the mountains of Northwest Iran where he found a new species of tarantula. nautil.us/new-tarantula-…

Turns Out, Tarantulas Hang Out With Lots Of Animal Pals iflscience.com/turns-out-tara…

Why tarantulas are hairy? youtube.com/watch?v=GV-VnO… Faculty of Science - University of Turku

Here is my recent interview with the Canadian science news program "Quirks & Quarks" (CBC Radio One), in which I had the pleasure of talking with Bob McDonald about tarantulas, ants, and Leonard Cohen. cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

تارانتولای طلای ایرانی Persian gold tarantula, Chaetopelma persianum, walking on a replica of an Achaemenid Persian griffin.

Explore the fascinating animal and plant discoveries by our researchers! 💚 Researchers are racing against time to identify new species as nature degradation and biodiversity loss are progressing rapidly on a global scale. Alireza Zamani Ilari E. Sääksjärvi utu.fi/en/news/aurora…

My final paper for 2024 was published today. In total, this year I co-authored 13 papers and co-described a genus and 35 species. These new species were collected from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

Here is a video / photo interview that I did with Yle, Finland's national public broadcasting company, about my background and research on spiders 🕸🕷 yle.fi/a/74-20123947

Check out our latest publication on the copulatory mechanics of Anatextrix monstrabilis, which likely has the most highly modified male palpal femur among all spiders: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I’m thrilled to be a co-recipient of the 2024 E.O. Wilson Research Prize, alongside my colleagues Rick C West and William Lamar: utu.fi/en/news/news/a…