A colorful jumping spider mimics multiple species of ants, and its repertoire of impressions seems to help it scare off one of its fiercest predators. By Sam Jones Siler collingwoodi is a spider that ...

In an eastern mountainous region of India, a group of researchers set out for a long voyage into the forest. For more than three months, the team was on the hunt for habrocestum, or jumping spiders.

The new species was named the “glossy jumping spider” after its iridescent scales. Caleb JTD, Parag A, Datta-Roy A Zoosystematics and Evolution Ayush Parag has spent a lot of time in the grasslands of ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo discovered three new species of jumping spiders, according to a new study. Brogan L Pett While sorting through leaves littering a forest floor in the ...

While sorting through leaves littering a forest floor in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers spotted something peculiar on the underside of a leaf: a “small” sheet of web with an ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Jumping spiders seem to be able to tell each other apart, putting them among just a few other invertebrates that are thought to have this skill. Recognising individuals within your species is ...

The city’s green lung — Aarey Milk Colony — has once again proven its ecological significance, this time by helping ...

University of California Berkeley researchers report that females of two jumping spider species prefer red ornamented males of Habronattus americanus, a pattern that drives interspecific mating with a ...