Online 4 months ago These Male Spiders Evolved a Post-Sex Catapult to Escape Cannibalistic Females Isaac Schultz Researchers in China have described yet another freaky sex habit of spiders (as if there weren’t enough already): Some male…
Online 7 months ago Spider Seen Collecting Water, Possibly to Dunk Its Meal Like a Cookie in Milk Jake Buehler
Online 7 months ago Newly Discovered Tarantula Lurks Inside Bamboo George Dvorsky Researchers have described a new species and genus of tarantula in Thailand. The jumbo spiders nest inside of bamboo stalks,…
Online 3 years ago 436-Million-Year-Old Scorpion Was Among The Planet’s First Air Breathers George Dvorsky
Online 3 years ago Gollum-Like Daddy Long-Legs Discovered In The Bowels Of The Earth Jake Buehler Daddy long-legs—spider-like arachnids technically known as “harvestmen”—are already plenty unnerving, with their too-long-to-be-real limbs, jerky movements, and habit of clustering…
Online 5 years ago This New Mexican Cave Spider Is Ridiculous George Dvorsky Say hello to Califorctenus cacachilensis, a new species of spider found in a remote mountain region of Baja California Sur….