Watch a "Trained" Spider Named Kim Leap Six Times Its Body Length
Kim was the only regal jumping spider willing to participate in the researchers' study.
Kim was the only regal jumping spider willing to participate in the researchers' study.
RIP, Number 16.
Brazilian scientists gave a recenty identified cave spider the name Ochyrocera aragogue, after Hagrid's enormous pet spider Aragog.
Spiders do a lot more than spin webs.
Turns out it's been laying low in England for nearly 50 years.
The process is mesmerizing, no matter which way you spin it.
Eight legs, eight eyes, no fears.
Arachnophobes, read no further: These massive spiders, mostly native to southeast Asia and Australia, can’t be dispatched by a shoe or a rolled-up newspaper.
From cartwheeling to venom-spitting, spiders have developed a lot of odd behaviors.
The next time you see a spider, maybe let it know you appreciate its hard work by leaving it be.
J.K. Rowling said she was “truly honored” by the name researchers chose for the tiny “fantastic beast.”
Scientists previously believed the tiny arachnids could only hear noises a few centimeters away.
If his dance moves don't impress, she eats him alive.
They've evolved to be tiny, eight-legged musicians.
We all know about the fish-zapping powers of the electric eel, but what about the platypus, the dolphin, or the spider?
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's a Selenops.
Whether it’s one creeping around some dark corner of your house or crawling over its web in a field or forest, most spiders we encounter are found on solid ground. Some spiders aren’t entirely earth-bound, though. They’re also also masters of air travel a
First off, they're not even spiders.
'Arachnophobia,' Frank Marshall's skin-crawling cult classic, crept its way into theaters 30 years ago.
E.B. White's famed children's book may contain talking animals, but it also maintains a surprising studiousness when it comes to the true science of arachnids.
The smearwort (Aristolochia rotunda) dupes fruit flies into entering its flowers and then traps them there, getting pollinated without offering any reward.
No. Just no.