Scientific researchers in India have just discovered a new "Fantastic Beast". Javed Ahmed and Rajashree Khalap, who are both self-professed Harry Potter fans, found a spider that resembles the famous ...

A newly discovered spider that looks like the famed "sorting hat" of "Harry Potter" fame has the name to prove it. Eriovixia gryffindori shares a shape similar to the hat that in the wizarding ...

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 ...

A spider bearing an "uncanny" resemblance to the sorting hat in the Harry Potter series has been discovered by scientists in India. The Eriovixia gryffindori, measuring just 7mm in length, closely ...

A team of scientists thought there was something familiar about a new species of spider that they discovered in the mountains of southern India. The insect looked surprisingly like the sorting hat ...

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