According to a team of biologists headed by Dr Morito Hayashi of the Natural History Museum in London, UK, seafaring spiders use their legs as sails and...
A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...
A group of scientists co-led by University of Pittsburgh biologists Dr Nathan Morehouse and Dr Daniel Zurek has found that spiders in the American genus...
Biologists Dr Jurgen Otto and Dr David Hill have described two new species of spiders in the genus Maratus.
Maratus jactatus, male. Image credit: Jurgen...
The majority of spiders spin silk threads several micrometers thick, but the orb spider Uloborus plumipes can spin nano-scale filaments.
The feather-legged...
Sci-News.com compiles an annual list of the top 20 new species of animals, plants and insects found in the past twelve months.
1. Araguaian boto (Inia...
An international group of scientists headed by Dr Laura Miglio from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Brazil has described a new tarantula species from...
Entomologists led by Dr Alejandro Valdez-Mondragón have described a new species of spider from a tropical rainforest in Veracruz, Mexico.
Paratropis tuxtlensis,...
A new research conducted by Prof Martin Nyffeler from the University of Basel and Prof Bradley Pusey from the University of Western Australia provides...
Scientists from the Universidad de La República in Uruguay have described three new species of tarantulas from northern Argentina.
The newly discovered...
A newly discovered species of spider, scientifically named Cebrennus rechenbergi, can flip like a gymnast.
The Moroccan flic-flac spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi....
Brazilian arachnologists from Butantan Institute and the University of Brasília have discovered three new of wafer trapdoor spiders.
Female Fufius lucasae,...
Entomologists have described two new species of the nemesiid spider genus Chaco from Rocha Province, Uruguay.
Chaco costai, male. Image credit: Montes...
Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...
A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...
Dr Rogério Bertani, a tarantula specialist with the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, has reported the discovery of nine species of tree-dwelling tarantulas.
Female...
Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.
This is the only fossil ever discovered...
A team of citizen scientists from the Western Cave Conservancy in Santa Cruz, California, and arachnologists from the California Academy of Sciences has...
An arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider.
A very special...
