A newly discovered spider that looks like the famed "sorting hat" of "Harry Potter" fame has the name to prove it. Eriovixia gryffindori shares a shape similar to the hat that in the wizarding ...

A new spider species found in the central Western Ghats in Karnataka, India, bears an uncanny resemblance to the sorting hat in the Harry Potter films. The spider, Eriovixia gryffindori, is named ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The spider was collected from a small sacred grove — patches of forests preserved ancestrally by local communities — in Shivamogga district in the ...

Before they traipsed through the sacred Indian grove or studied the hat-shaped spider, before they realized it was a new species or assigned it a peculiar name, scientific researchers Javed Ahmed and ...

MUMBAI (AFP) - Indian scientists have discovered a new species of spider that looks "uncannily" like the sorting hat in Harry Potter and have named it after its owner Godric Gryffindor, they said ...