Trap door spider "great ocean journey" gets worldwide press coverage
A paper published inÌý today by PhD candidate and today tells the origin story of Trapdoor Spider's arrival in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
This new paper challenges the previous theory the spiders arrived in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ during the break up of the supercontinent Gondwana 95 million years ago.
However, the genetic analysis conducted by PhD candidate Sophie Harrison suggests the species of trapdoor spiders found on South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s Kangaroo Island only split from it's closest relative 2-16 million years ago.
This new evidence proposes trapdoor spiders may have rafted across the Indian ocean in their silk sealed, climate controlled homes on or in debris washed out of African rivers to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
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And see the story covered in more detail inÌý, featured in the top five stories on Ìý, , Ìý,ÌýSA's publication Ìý²¹²Ô»å which has a daily readership of 7 million.
This new paper challenges the previous theory the spiders arrived in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ during the break up of the supercontinent Gondwana 95 million years ago.
However, the genetic analysis conducted by PhD candidate Sophie Harrison suggests the species of trapdoor spiders found on South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s Kangaroo Island only split from it's closest relative 2-16 million years ago.
This new evidence proposes trapdoor spiders may have rafted across the Indian ocean in their silk sealed, climate controlled homes on or in debris washed out of African rivers to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
Read the full media release
And see the story covered in more detail inÌý, featured in the top five stories on Ìý, , Ìý,ÌýSA's publication Ìý²¹²Ô»å which has a daily readership of 7 million.
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