A rare spider which has only been seen a handful of times in the county has been spotted in sand dunes on the north Norfolk coast.
Eleanor Morrison, a 23-year-old National Trust worker, discovered the sand running spider while working on a conservation project at Brancaster beach earlier this month.
There have only been 117 sightings in the UK since records began in 1899- six of these were in Norfolk.
Miss Morrison said: "I was working in the sand dunes helping to put up some fences to protect the ground nesting birds.
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"I was really excited when I found it, I had a strong feeling that it was unique and that I'd never seen it before."
The "nationally rare" spider is among the UK Biodiversity Action Plan's list of priority species after undergoing a significant long-term decline of more than 60pc.
Instead of using a web to catch prey, the sand running spider is a hunting species which are only found on sand dunes.
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