Everyone loves the world’s most famous jumping spider, Lucas. While we’ve seen this adorably animated arachnid dance, sing, and play, there’s one more thing he’s capable of: eating. The jumping spider ...

Dawn Sturgess looked out her bedroom window in southern England one day last summer just in time to witness an arachnophobe’s nightmare: a shrew was tangled in a spider’s web, and its ability to ...

In the depths of the Amazon and across the humid forests of the Philippines, two unassuming orb-weaving spiders have perfected the art of illusion. Instead of retreating into the shadows when danger ...

A spider of the Leptonetela genus stands on its web. (Jie Liu/Hubei University) (CN) — A family of eyeless spiders dwelling in dark caves can sense light. Approximately one to three millimeters in ...