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New pseudoscorpions with dragon-like jaws discovered in a South Korea cave

Laura Baisas

created: July 9, 2025, 6 p.m. | updated: July 19, 2025, 5:49 p.m.

Four new species of these tiny arachnids have been uncovered in the dark caves of South Korea. A pseudoscorpion from the genus Paratemnoides in South Korea. “Pseudoscorpions are awesome animals,” Kyung–Hoon Jeong, a study co-author and arachnologist at South Korea’s Jeonbuk National University, tells Popular Science. Blind dragonsOnly five pseudoscorpion species have been recorded from caves in South Korea, compared to the hundreds that have been documented in countries like China. “Many people have believed there is only one species (Spelaeochthonius dentifier) distributed in Korea.

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