David Bowie called his bandmates the Spiders From Mars—but the real spider called Heteropoda davidbowie hails from Southeast Asia. The scientist who found the orange-haired species named it in ...

Although not actual spiders, 'araneiforms' are dark cracks in the Martian soil READ MORE: Mars has two miles of water buried ...

David Bowie ... guise in June 1972 in London, England. Bowie shot to stardom with his 1972 “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” when his alter ego was born.

David Bowie ... Visconti was Bowie’s long-time producer and friend, as well as the bass player on ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, while Woodmansey was one of the Spider From Mars and the ...