Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big ... "Maybe they use this silk as a kind of an alarm system or as a way of getting out of reach for predators," says Harvard University researcher ...

At least one group of jumping spider species plans out strategic attacks involving elaborate detours to reach a target — the kind of clever hunting behavior typically ascribed to large ...

They could also ascertain from the footage how different legs contributed to jumping. By the way, when you look at a male splendid peacock spider, what stands out is its third set of legs.

Either way, new research suggests all those extra pairs of spider peepers have their own roles to play in keeping the arachnids safe. Jumping ... on the other hand, separate out visual functions ...

Now, a new study suggests that spiders ... jumping spider called Toxeus magnus may do something different. While the young spider and their mothers don’t leave their nest, the youngsters reach ...

But previous studies have documented locomotor mimicry in some species, like swallowtail butterflies and clearwing moths, as well as the jumping ... out to explore the effectiveness of the spider ...

Perhaps most surprisingly, the researchers found that spiderlings continue drinking their mother’s milk even after reaching ... of the wolf spiders, Carolina wolf spiders come out at night ...

There are now 50,000 known different species of spider crawling the Earth, the World Spider Catalog announced Wednesday – and there might be another 50,000 out there. The WSC, based at the ...

It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage showed ...

Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big ... "Maybe they use this silk as a kind of an alarm system or as a way of getting out of reach for predators," says Harvard University researcher ...