What looks like a spider but isn’t one, lives underwater and breathes through its legs? That would be the mysterious sea ...

When spiders self-amputate two of their legs, they quickly adjust their running gait so they can return to full speed ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but here are three that are guaranteed to ..

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

Jumping spiders are different—they use a unique semi-hydraulic system. They don't have muscles to extend their legs and power the jumps. Instead, they extend their legs by increasing the ...

In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs. Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side of Japan as far south as Taiwan and at chilly depths ranging from 164 feet to as low as ...