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

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 ..

When threatened by a predator, spiders can detach their legs in a process called autotomy – up to 40 per cent of wild spiders have missing legs as a result. Their legs fully grow back when they ...

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 ...