Bad news for arachnophobes: Scientists reveal how the whitebanded crab spider can change its COLOUR when hunting. Female of the species use their colour-changing ability to ambush prey ...

Ideas about crab spider coloration have been unraveling since 2001 when Lars Chittka, also of Queen Mary, pointed out that bees see ultraviolet wavelengths but that non–UV-reflecting spiders ...

New research reveals that the whitebanded crab spider (Misumenoides formosipes) can swap costumes -- change color -- to better blend in with its surroundings.

A diver was swimming amid thousands of spider crabs off the coast of Victoria, Australia, when she noticed that one of them was trapped by the leg in a fishing line.

This spider's straight off the silver scream - it looks frighteningly like the clown in Stephen King's 1990 hit-film 'It'. The bright green creepy crawlie, which belongs to the thomisidae family ...

It also appears to have a very robust body or shell with ridges across its back which is not found in any spider known to man. "This creature probably lived in a swamp and used its claws for sweeping ...