New Species of Desert Spider Cartwheels Out of Harm's Way

This desert spider executes a series of flips to avoid predators. (YouTube screenshot). When this newly discovered desert spider finds itself in danger, it flips out — literally. Peter Jäger, a taxonomist at the Seckenberg Research Institute in Germany, recently identified the new species of spider which lives in the desert of southeastern Morocco. Jäger nicknamed the spider "flic-flac" for the gymnastic flips it performs to avoid predators, the New York Times reports.