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What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...

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 ...

Joe Fenwick, Corrandulla, Co Galway This is a most excellent picture of a male jumping spider, Hasarius adansoni. As jumping ...

Alias: Johnson’s jumping spider, or Red backed jumping spider. Adults are small, usually about a centimeter in length. Like most jumping spiders, they have most of their eyes facing forward and large ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen's affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. Tolerance turned to acceptance, and "accidentally ...

Hidden under leaves in southern India, a small creature waits to launch. Marathe K, Caleb JTD, Maddison WP, Nisha BG, Maliye CC, Lohit YT, Kunte K (2024) ZooKeys Hidden under the leaf litter, one tiny ...