Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels its way across rust-colored rocks. Meet Paleotoca diminas, a spider new to science. The species, ...
Along the leaf-covered ground of southern India scampered an eight-eyed creature. The predatory animal caught the attention of nearby scientists — and turned out to be a new species. Researchers ...
Most spiders are content to sit and wait for unsuspecting victims to blunder into their silken traps, but webs are only ever as good as the structures that secure them to the surfaces that support ...
One of Britain's rarest spiders, the horrid ground-weaver, was photographed for the first time. The photos show the critically endangered colony of spider after being discovered in a fourth area on a ...
It’s a spider-eat-spider world. High-speed cameras have recorded the first footage showing how ground spiders hunt other spiders – sometimes bigger than themselves – by tying them up with sticky silk.
None of Takesha Henderson's discoveries are named Charlotte, but they are weaving a new chapter in Texas entomology. Her graduate studies at Texas A&M University have led to the discovery of 25 new ...
When imagining research into spider biology, one might picture anything from the horror writing of Ezekiel Boone to science fiction comic heroes such as Spiderman, but for several labs at UC ...
Scientists found an eight-eyed animal that chases its prey in leaves of Kerala and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View April 2023 © 2024 ...