Spiders living in the Amazon rainforest defend themselves from predators using an amazing variety of strategies. One newly ...

A spider species found in the Ecuadorian Amazon has evolved to look almost exactly like a dead spider overtaken by parasitic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Reddit A tiny spider in China's Yunnan rain forest has stunned scientists by seeming to be a curled dead leaf ...

On a nighttime field survey in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a researcher spotted something on the underside of a leaf that looked exactly like a fungus consuming a spider. It had the pale, elongated growths ...

Beauty is often said to be in the eye of the beholder. And while that may be true in most cases, the peacock katydid is an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Reddit A tiny spider with a big disguise is winning over Reddit. A Thailand-based Reddit user recently took to the r ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland ...

A yet unnamed Australian spider weaponizes silk to hunt a single ant species. With great silk, comes great adaptability.

Scientists have discovered a “ballista spider” that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree ants. The ant unknowingly triggers the mechanism itself, ...