One such creature has made itself quite the unusual hitchhiker by joining US travelers and living with them on the road.

Sprout the jumping spider was an accidental acquisition by ... they decided it would be best to build Sprout his own little home, which they decorated with all of his “favorite” things ...

Harvard neurobiologist Paul Shamble and his colleagues decided to examine the silk produced by zebra jumping spiders (Salticus scenicus). Little did they know they were in for what Shamble says was “a ...