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By Jeff Barnard / The Bulletin
August 18, 2012
GRANTS PASS — Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed it Trogloraptor — Latin for cave robber — for their fearsome front claws.
The cavers sent specimens to the California Academy of Sciences in San....