Jumping spiders possess an incredibly sharp sense of vision compared to other arachnids and arthropods, with four large eyes in front and four more smaller ones on the top of the head.

A colorful jumping spider mimics multiple species of ants, and its repertoire of impressions seems to help it scare off one of its fiercest predators.

Spider milk may sound like a fictional substance, but scientists in China have found at least one species of creepy crawlers that produces a milk-like fluid to nourish its young.

Spiders show signs of REM-like activity, raising the question: Do they dream? A team of researchers filmed jumping spiders overnight and observed behaviors that mirror rapid eye movement sleep in ...

Teeny jumping spider found in woman’s ear after days of torturous racket The spider was nesting on her eardrum—and there's video.

You can run or fight or hide--or you can look like something that tastes horrible. It appears that a type of jumping spider takes that to the extreme — it's learned to MOVE like something nasty.

A jumping spider devours a hoverfly. The hoverfly has evolved to look like a wasp, but in this case the resemblance is not ...

Researchers have found a strange but effective tool to test the theory that male jumping spiders evolved colorful stripes to ward off predators: makeup.

Jumping spiders are the corgis of the spider world. With their tiny size and spiky hairdos, almost everyone finds them at least a little bit cute. A new video lets you see inside a spider's head ...

Nabawy’s robotic spiders are modeled after a species in the arachnid family called the regal jumping spider (Phidippus regius). Nabawy and his colleagues train spiders to jump various distances ...

Jumping spiders use their dragline of silk to stabilise themselves mid-air and land of their feet ready to pounce, say scientists.