There are a lot of weird, incredible spiders out there, but one recently discovered spider is just a little less scary - because he's very familiar looking. A group of scientists has discovered a new ...

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 ...

Indian scientists have discovered a new species of spider that looks “uncannily” like the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter — and so have named it after its owner Godric Gryffindor “My colleagues and I are ...

HARRY Potter loving scientists have paid tribute to their favourite magical book series by naming a spider after something from the series. The Eriovixia gryffindori spider was discovered in a small ...

Eriovixia gryffindori measures just a quarter inch in length. When it came time to name a new species of spider found in India, there wasn't much deliberation. The nocturnal arachnid, found in India's ...

“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 ...

Potter-mad scientists have paid tribute to their favourite magical books by naming a spider after something from the series HARRY Potter loving scientists have paid tribute to their favourite magical ...