
Carlos Perafan, coordinator of the team that recently discovered the "Kankuamus Marquezi" tarantula in Colombia- shows a specimen at the Natural Sciences University in Montevideo, on July 7, 2016. A new species of tarantula has been identified near the home town of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and in an unusual posthumous honor, the spider has been named for the late Nobel literature laureate. / AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL ROJOMIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images


