Certified animal lover Celine Tails documents the delicate process of transferring a tiny jumping spider into a beautifully ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A team of researchers discovered a new jumping spider species in the Western Ghats mountain range in India.

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators. Male jumping spiders also jump to escape ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey. By Jack Tamisiea The researchers started by collecting ...

Ajay Narendra receives funding from Australian Research Council. Jumping spiders – one of the largest spider families – get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate ...