This is No. 16, a 43-year-old spider. Or, rather, this was No. 16. She died a tragic death when she was violently attacked by a wasp in Western Australia. What makes her story remarkable is that ...

The female trapdoor spider known as Number 16 passed away in Australia, leaving scientists who'd been studying her feeling "miserable" about her death. World's oldest spider, a trapdoor, dies at ...

SYDNEY --The world's oldest-known spider has died at the ripe old age of 43 after being monitored for years during a long-term population study in Australia, researchers said Friday.The trapdoor ...

The spider outlived the next-oldest known spider—a 28-year-old tarantula from Mexico—by some 15 years. The trapdoor, which researchers dubbed "no. 16," The Telegraph reported, lived in the ...

World's oldest spider, dubbed "Number 16," has died at 43 Female Giaus Villosus , better known as a trapdoor spider, succumbed to wasp sting Trapdoor spiders commonly seen in Australia, typically ...

According to TIME, the world’s oldest spider, a 43-year-old, female trapdoor tarantula (Gaius villosus) known as Number 16, died recently because of a wasp sting.

A spider believed to be the oldest in the world has died at the age of 43, heartbroken Australian scientists announced this week. The female Giaus Villosus, or trapdoor spider — Number 16, as… ...

Alan Burdick remembers No. 16, an Australian trapdoor spider that lived to the age of forty-three, and discusses the effect that she had on the naturalist Barbara York Main, whose work has been ...

This is No. 16, a 43-year-old spider. Or, rather, this was No. 16. She died a tragic death when she was violently attacked by a wasp in Western Australia. What makes her story remarkable is that ...

The spider, named after its discoverer, Simon McClusky, is similar to a trapdoor spider. According to Raven, 300 species of the brush-footed trapdoor spiders are alive today but don't fossilize.

This is No. 16, a 43-year-old spider. Or, rather, this was No. 16. She died a tragic death when she was violently attacked by a wasp in Western Australia. What makes her story remarkable is that un… ...