Australia: Aboriginal high school students discover 33 new spider species

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From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

High school students from the remote Indigenous community of Maningrida, 500 kilometres east of Darwin, have written themselves into the science books.

They have discovered 33 new species of spiders over the past two years.

Maningrida senior students discovered 18 new species of spiders in 2005 and another 15 spiders last year.

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