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David Bowie: The Spider!

"So where were the spiders," bellowed a youthful and androgynous David Bowie on the early glam-rock masterpiece "Ziggy Stardust." After 37 years, we may finally have the answer, as an endangered arachnid has just been donned with the name Heteropoda davidbowie . Though over the course of Bowie's career the singer has been considered a musical chameleon, the naming of this rare Malaysian spider is an homage to the incredibly influential breakthrough record The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From [...]