Coastal spider ancestors may have dispersed eastward across Southern Hemisphere oceans

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 16:13 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Coastal spiders may have undergone transoceanic dispersal eastward from South America to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand as the Amaurobioides genus evolved, according to a study published Oct. 12, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by F. Sara Ceccarelli from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, and colleagues.

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