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“My colleagues and I are geeks and we all thought, ‘Hey this curious little spider looks exactly like the Sorting Hat.’ It was uncannily similar,” scientist Javed Ahmed said of the 7mm spider. “So we ...

Before they traipsed through the sacred Indian grove or studied the hat-shaped spider, before they realized it was a new species or assigned it a peculiar name, scientific researchers Javed Ahmed and ...