09/04/2026
🔎🕷️ What if the next new species to be discovered was already hiding inside a museum’s collection?
"Crawling from the collections" tells the unlikely story of how two amateur spider enthusiasts at Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered a previously unknown species hidden in a jar among the museum's arachnid archives.
Read the latest issue of Carnegie magazine at the link in our bio to learn why the spider was named after John Denver.
Photo by Valerie Warhol