Spider experts experts believed the species was unlikely to be a Cornish native - so sent them to Dmitri Logunov, Europe’s leading jumping spider expert, at Manchester Museum. But it was ...

Hidden under the leaf litter, one tiny creature is easy to miss. It’s just a few millimeters long, and the animal is waiting for the perfect moment to reach its legs out from under a leaf and ...

It’s a stunning example of the failure of WA’s planning system, say advocates: the loss of a rare and beautiful species for ...

Measuring no bigger than 0.2 inches (0.5 centimeters), the sparklemuffin peacock spider is, arguably, one of the cutest spiders around. These jumping spiders were discovered as a new species in 2015.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, now we’ve got jumping earthworms on our hands? Yep, you heard it right, a new invasive species has reared its eyeless and squirming head in these ...

is the only known habitat of the peacock jumping spider species Maratus yanchep. But it could be "only a matter of weeks before the land these spiders call home is reduced to sand" as the next ...

A new study provides detailed insights into the embryogenesis and eye development of the cave-dwelling spider Tegenaria pagana ... Fast-growing and small-seeded tree species are dominating ...

Residents have spotted the species twice in the past few months, and an expert weighs in on if we should be worried.