Wondering what spiders you might encounter in your home? Explore common spiders you may see and get tips for identifying and ...

According to the British Arachnological Society, jumping spiders, particularly the zebra spider, are generally more common in ...

The ability of jumping spiders to correctly judge the distance of its leaps could mean big things for imaging in small devices, with scientists at Harvard tapping into these skills to develop a ...

A member of the tarantula family, the Goliath birdeater takes the prize for the heaviest spider in the world. As is the case with many spiders, the females are bigger than the males because they ...

Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are a recently evolved family of spiders. They are known for their distinctive large eyes and ability to jump long distances relative to their small size.

This jumping spider lives in the forests of southern India and now has been identified as a new species, according to a study published Oct. 11 in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys.

They suspect that it is only the largest species of jumping spider, like P. regius, that can do this with any regularity, as they others tend to be too small and are therefore often on the ...

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 ...

Jumping Spider Focus 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 ...

Small brains can do amazing things. A "spider-centric" view of the ways in which the eight eyes that jumping spiders use in their worlds opens our own two eyes to the remarkable ways in which they ...