Alex Liu of NYU's Scienceline.org made this informative video on Spider biologist Norman Platnick and the state of his work with the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Platnick has traveled the world cataloging some of these creatures, many for the first time ever. World renowned for his work, he hopes to find as many as species as possible before some disappear.

Of Venom and Silk from Scienceline on Vimeo.

Platnick, N. I. 2010. The world spider catalog, version 11.0. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.htmld

Source: www.scienceline.org