A video shared to Reddit in February 2024 genuinely showed a real, red-and-blue spider species that resembles the superhero Spider-Man. Spider scientist Sebastian Echeverri told Snopes in an email ...
The newfound species belongs to the family of 'ladybird velvet spiders' but the bodily features display starkly unusual traits.
The video above even inspired an entire collection shared on TikTok of mashups, reposts, and theories as to whether the spider represented a genuine species. Spoiler alert: It did not. Spider ...