Researchers have documented for the first time a bizarre mating behavior among tiny spider-like creatures in which males "undress" the females before copulating. A team of scientists observed the ...

Scientists have discovered that female spiders that usually eat their mates after sex choose to act as if they're dead so that males will trust them enough to copulate. According to a paper published ...

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators. Male jumping spiders also jump to escape ...

The discovery, described in the journal Zootaxa, is the first ever recorded instance of a gynandromorph in the spider family Bemmeridae, and only the third known case in the entire group of ...

A new study documents fighting and cannibalism between female joro spiders for the first time. But it’s unclear how this plays out in nature. Researchers have been studying joro spiders to better ...