The Himalayan Smile: How a Chance Encounter Unveiled a Long-Lost Evolutionary Cousin
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July 11, 2026
For over a century, the "Happy Face" spider—a tiny, charismatic arachnid bearing a vivid, smiling visage upon its abdomen—was considered an exclusive icon of the Hawaiian archipelago. Long held up by biologists as a prime example of…
