Endearing orange-faced peacock spider looks like ‘Nemo’ (and dances)
A citizen scientist discovered Maratus nemo in the wetlands of southern Australia. A newfound species of colorful, dancing peacock spider has an endearing orange face striped with white, leading the arachnologist who described the spider to name it “Nemo,” after Pixar’s famous clownfish. Unlike the plucky protagonist in the 2003 …
