Two new members of this family of spiders have been discovered, and given equally adorable nicknames -- Maratus jactatus, nicknamed "Sparklemuffin" for its sparkly muffin of a butt; and Maratus ...

We know spiders best as quiet, eight-legged monsters who lurk around and trap their prey with webs and venom. But 13 percent of the more than 450,000 arachnid species can aggressively stalk prey ...

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The jumping spider may even be able to expand its habitat this way. To test this idea, the researchers collected S. collingwoodi, a non-mimicking jumping spider and five ant species from locations ...

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 ...