Singer David Bowie has had a large, yellow, hairy spider from Malaysia named after him.
A German spider specialist told the Observer newspaper he named the new species after Bowie because he wanted to raise awareness about the discovery.


Peter Jaeger, who has found 200 new species of arachnids in a decade, says he's named it Heteropoda davidbowie.
Jaeger says most of the species he's uncovered are endangered.
"It is working against time," he said. "We are also quickly losing genetic resources that have evolved over more than 300 million years."
Bowie, has yet to react to the news.

Just one last question: Is it poisonous?

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