Spider science educator Sebastian Echeverri of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History talks about the superpowers of jumping spiders in this 11-minute video. Originally published on Live Science .

Noel Kirkpatrick is an editor and writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He covers many topics, including animals, science, and the environment. Jumping spiders are the largest group of spiders on ...

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Like a base jumper leaping off a high precipice into the abyss below, a flat, brownish spider dives from the top of a tall tree and careens through the air, spiraling downward before smashing into ...

The jumping spider may even be able to expand its habitat this way. To test this idea, the researchers collected S. collingwoodi, a non-mimicking jumping spider and five ant species from locations ...

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One such creature has made itself quite the unusual hitchhiker by joining US travelers and living with them on the road. While the little arachnid was never meant to live a nomadic life, she quickly ...

And jumping spiders will use that kind of like their home base," Malad said. That one was found alive and thriving in a part of Indiana, which was once 8,000 acres of agricultural land reclaimed ...

On average, male and female spiders experienced the equivalent of 13.03 gs and 12.5 gs, respectively, during take-off, which is higher than any other known jumping spider.