The newly described jumping spider, Guriurius minuano, has a stripy pattern on its abdomen and large black eyes. (Pictured) Damián Hagopián Scientists have discovered a new species of spider, bringing ...

Two scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have recorded two new species of jumping spiders in Meghalaya. The duo, Puthoor Pattammal Sudhin and Souvik Sen, described the species Asemonea ...

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 ...

Spiders might not be everyone’s favorite creature, but they provide a vital service to us all, every year consuming as much prey as all the world’s whales do. But the eight-legged critters don’t just ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Male jumping spiders will try to mate with any female, but that lack of discretion could cost them their lives, suggests new research. Male jumping spiders will try to mate with any female, but that ...

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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 ...