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 ...

India has two new species of jumping spiders that were recently discovered. Researchers have found these species in both ...

Jumping spiders are crafty hunters, but sometimes they need their own disguise to avoid their own predators. Biologist Alexis Dodson studies Synemosyna formica, a species of jumping spider that avoids ...

The unveiling of two new jumping spider species, Mogrus shushka and Mogrus pune, in various environments in Rajasthan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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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