Meet Iowa’s charming jump spiders, learn where to spot them, see what sets each species apart, and find out why locals adore ...

Take a walk in French Guiana’s tropical rainforests, and you’ll encounter giant spiderwebs longer than a school bus. Inside, thousands of tiny, quarter-inch-long spiders wait for their prey to be ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is often linked to lifestyle: predators such as lions tend to have ...

New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. While these spiders have evolved socially similar behaviors -- living in large family groups that share both ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A species of "social" spider hunts in packs among webs woven by ...

Since the mid-20th century, ecologists have been studying how the availability of prey affects the rate at which predators kill and consume it. Depending on the animals and the ecosystem, predators do ...

A small Australian spider uses a Cirque du Soleil-worthy tactic to prey on fierce ants. By Sam Jones Spiders have no shortage of strategies to capture their prey. Some hunt in packs, others set traps ...

For one tiny Australian spider, somersaulting is the secret to taking on ants twice its size. The hunting maneuver hasn’t been found in any other spider species, researchers report September 19 in the ...