This spider makes its home in the burrows of extinct giant ground sloths
Paleotoca diminas represents a new type of long-spinneret ground spider
![A pale spider rests on rust-tinged soil.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/081324_jb_paleoburrow_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Paleotoca diminas, a newfound eyeless spider species, may sense vibrations in the air with special hairs on its legs.
I. Cizauskas, R. de A. Zampaulo and A.D. Brescovit/Taxonomy 2024