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May 17, 2023 A species of tiny, colorful jumping spider employs two lines of defense to avoid being eaten: camouflaging with plants and walking like an ant. Researchers report that this combination of camouflage ...
Oct. 18, 2022 New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. While these spiders have evolved socially similar behaviors -- living in large family groups that share ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Researchers found that wolf spiders can't signal others or perceive danger from predators as easily on rain-soaked leaves compared to dry ones. Even communicating with would-be mates is harder ...
Feb. 13, 2024 The Joro spider was first spotted stateside around 2013 and has since been spotted across Georgia and the Southeast. New research has found more clues as to why the spider has been so successful in ...
June 2, 2021 Spiders avoid building webs near European fire ants, their natural predators, by sensing the chemicals they give off in the environment, researchers have found. The findings give us a peek inside the ...
May 9, 2022 A tropical spider species uses a 'film' of air to hide underwater from predators for as long as 30 minutes, according to new ...
Jan. 14, 2022 An international team of researchers found that the brightly colored jumping spider Saitis barbipes could not see its own vivid ...
July 28, 2023 A new spider species, a blind daddy long-legs, has been discovered in boreholes in Australia's Pilbara region. In addition, a new-to-science daddy long-legs species was found on Réunion island, ...
Feb. 7, 2022 Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in ...
Oct. 12, 2021 Early in animal evolution, complex life was mostly limited to the sea floor. But a few organisms evolved to move through the water, giving them a big competitive advantage over those left scuttling ...