Researchers from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have revealed one of the oddest spiders ever discovered. The Sinopoda scurion is the first eyeless huntsman spider in the world.

'I found the spider in a cave in Laos, around 100 kilometres away from the famous Xe Bang Fai cave,' said Peter Jäger, head of the arachnology section at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt. 'We already knew of spiders of this genus from other caves, but they always had eyes and complete pigmentation.

The team believe the regression of the eyes is attributable to living permanently without daylight.

(Source: Daily Mail)