The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an ...

Regal jumping spiders train themselves from a young age to become masterful hunters. From the day they leave mom’s silk nest, the tiny spiderlings practice, practice, practice, using some of the best ...

It's a quiet autumn evening. You're enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider ...

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo discovered three new species of jumping spiders, according to a new study. Brogan L Pett While sorting through leaves littering a forest floor in the ...

A colorful jumping spider mimics multiple species of ants, and its repertoire of impressions seems to help it scare off one of its fiercest predators. By Sam Jones Siler collingwoodi is a spider that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jumping spiders seem to use a part of the eye that contains out-of-focus images to assess distances. Could it help us build a better robot?

Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with precision while experiencing g-forces higher than those of fighter pilots.