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Rare intersex spider among new species discovered in Thailand (phys.org)
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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That’s amazing. It looks fake. Bizarre that it would be split down the middle instead a mixture of the two.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

Weirdly enough, it's super common for intersex animals to be split right down the middle like that. There's other types of chimerism like what you described tho, if you want to go down that particular rabbit hole of nerdery.