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John Kidman

SHOCKING: Spider project aiming to find 100 species - What They Never Told You

The first wishbone spider was discovered by German taxonomist Ludwig Koch in Queensland in 1873. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Since the discovery of Australia's first wishbone spider in 1873, another 45 species of the weirdly fearsome, burrowing arachnid have been identified nationwide.

Yet experts are convinced there may be another hundred of them out there, waiting to be classified.

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