Scientists have discovered three new spider species in India this July: one in a cave in Meghalaya, one in a forest canopy in Andhra Pradesh, and one in a stretch of grassland in Maharashtra.
Meghalaya
India has no single word for what happens when a community embroiders a peacock onto a shawl, paints a tiger onto a temple wall, or weaves a blackbuck into a carpet — and has been doing so for five centuries.
Northeast India is one of the world’s great biodiversity frontiers. The change in how it has been documented arrived from an unexpected direction.