Whether it’s a sudden dash across the garage or a silhouette in a backyard web, spiders evoke fear in many people — and University of Nebraska–Lincoln researche ...

What is it about Jumping spiders that have people intrigued? Is it their big beguiling eyes that look back at you, or their furry bodies? The entertaining way they stand ...

Bold jumping spiders are small hunters known for their excellent eyesight and rapid jumping ability. Unlike many spiders, they do not rely on webs to catch prey and instead stalk insects before ...

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 exhibit a remarkable repertoire of behaviours underpinned by a sophisticated visual system and emerging cognitive attributes. Their capacity for acute spatial resolution, rapid ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Some jumping spiders look so much like wasps that scientists named them for the predatory insects. But University of Cincinnati biologists wondered: Do these mimics really look like insect faces or is ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnolia green jumper spider on leaf - fendercapture/Shutterstock Some spiders you might ...