This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Jumping spiders, which use their four pairs of big eyes to spot prey so that they can pounce, can spend a lot of the night just hanging around—literally. The gorilla jumping spider, Evarcha arcuata, ...

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Renowned for their quick reflexes, jumping spiders exhibit a unique predatory strategy, actively stalking and pouncing on ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...

Two newly discovered jumping spiders from Meghalaya highlight Northeast India’s hidden biodiversity, revealing how limited exploration still is and why scientists believe many more species remain ...

Birds do it, people do it, even dogs do it. We all sleep, and dream as we slumber. But do spiders do it, too? It's a question that's keeping some scientists in Germany up at night. They may be creepy ...

Appearance: Varies by species, but they're often small and fuzzy and have two shiny large eyes in the the middle of what humans would call a forehead. Habitat: Found worldwide, except Antarctica and ...

Many people who live a nomadic life in vans, buses, and RVs like to have pets with them on their journeys, and it’s actually ...