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, bringing ...

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) scientists have discovered two new species of jumping spiders in Meghalaya, a ZSI spokesperson announced on Wednesday. The newly described species—Asemonea dentis and ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

Spiders might not be everyone’s favorite creature, but they provide a vital service to us all, every year consuming as much prey as all the world’s whales do. But the eight-legged critters don’t just ...

The new species was named the “glossy jumping spider” after its iridescent scales. Caleb JTD, Parag A, Datta-Roy A Zoosystematics and Evolution Ayush Parag has spent a lot of time in the grasslands of ...

Spiders? They're just like us! Well, at least they may be when it comes to their sleeping habits. A new study of jumping spiders found evidence that the small invertebrates may experience an REM sleep ...

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey. By Jack Tamisiea The researchers started by collecting ...

In a first-ever observation, scientists have documented a jumping spider catch and eat a tadpole. Though some large species of jumping spiders have been known to prey on frogs and lizards, this is the ...

From a standing start, humans can jump around 1.5 times their own body length. But this pales in comparison to the abilities of the regal jumping spider. Otherwise known as Phidippus regius, the tiny ...

Two scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have recorded two new species of jumping spiders in Meghalaya. The duo, Puthoor Pattammal Sudhin and Souvik Sen, described the species Asemonea ...