Even if you’re scared of spiders, you may find the little jumping spider cute. With its oversized eyes and inquisitive nature ...

The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big eyes to spot prey so that they can pounce, can spend a lot of the night just hanging around—literally. The gorilla jumping spider, Evarcha arcuata, ...

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 ...

NEWTON COUNTY, Ind. — Though researchers scoured grasslands at Kankakee Sands in the hopes of finding one, it wasn’t until they checked a portion of prairielands on the property’s eastern edge that ...

Twelve new spider species were found in New Zealand’s mountains, proving there’s still more wildlife waiting to be discovered ...

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered a new genus of jumping spiders, Ourea, revealing 12 unique alpine species and ...