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HN pedantry time:

>discovered a remarkable new spider species...

Recently evolved then?

Or perhaps...

"An international team of researchers has recently discovered a remarkable spider species..."



The notion of a species only really exists in the human world; it's a human concept. So the discovery of a new species is the discovery of a new classification need. It is new to science.

(At a first approximation, essentially all existing species are new on an evolutionary level — isn't it the case that something like 99.9% of all life on earth is newer than a million years old?)


It’s a new discovery for humans.


that's precisely their point


Not seeing the "problem." To humans, it's new. It's a new addition to the list of "species we know about." It's a new spider species. This is how language has been used for a long time.




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