A new species of tarantula was just identified in Thailand — and researchers are calling it the "jewel of the forest" for its ...

A newly identified Australian spider uses a spring-loaded silk snare to hurl green tree ants into its web at accelerations of ...

A tiny spider in the rainforests of Queensland has figured out how to hunt prey far more powerful and dangerous than itself, ...

What appeared to be a tiny mushroom clinging to the underside of a leaf in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest was actually something ...

Scientists have discovered a new Amazonian spider with an astonishing disguise: it looks like a parasitic fungus. The species ...

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In ecology, the principle holds that the more diverse and heterogeneous a habitat is, the more different species it supports.

Biologists have discovered a new tarantula species in Cuba that is bigger and hairier than other spiders in its genus. A new study, "A hairy giant among dwarves," published this month in the Journal ...

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of ...

In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its ...

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