A British animal park is celebrating a baby boom of a rare and critically endangered wolf spider after a two-year wait to be able to breed them. The Desertas wolf spiders are only found in one place in the wild – the Desertas Grande island, off the coast of Madeira – and there are only about 3,000 left.

Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire got some of the rare breed when they were six months old but had to wait almost two years before they could breed them. The spiders, the largest of its kind, have now hatched from their egg sacs and the park has more than 60 little babies.

(All photos via VCG)

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