Afascinating discovery has emerged from New Zealand’s South Island, where researchers have identified an entirely new genus ...

Regal jumping spiders are masterful hunters with their athletic leaps, sharp fangs and lethal venom. Regal jumping spiders train themselves from childhood to become masterful hunters. From the day ...

On average, male and female spiders experienced the equivalent of 13.03 gs and 12.5 gs, respectively, during take-off, which is higher than any other known jumping spider.

10. Whitman’s Jumping Spider Whitman’s jumping spider has a red furry body, though its legs and underside are black. They have tiny white spines covering their legs, giving them a grey appearance.

Most of us spare little love for spiders. With their strange, spindly walks across our walls and our ceilings, our responses to spiders typically range from fear to hatred to hesitant neutrality. But ...

Regal jumpers, a type of jumping spider, appear to be less interested in each other if they have met before, suggesting that the arachnids recognise individuals within their species ...

Adorable jumping spiders that aren’t considered to be social critters may be able to remember one another. The curious finding comes from a pre-print into Phidippus regius, a big-eyed spider ...

He also made an appeal on the spider's behalf, noting, "Like 99.95 percent of the world's >50,000 species of spiders, jumping spiders are not dangerous." Nyffeler agreed, noting that jumping ...

Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider — it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.

"This species has been documented in surrounding states but somehow slipped through the cracks of Indiana records," Venable said in a statement about the encounter. "In fact, Dr. Marc Milne, professor ...