Their insights might help robotics research. Most land animals can jump, and, terrifyingly, so can some spiders. Jumping spiders propel themselves using a distinctive combination of hydraulic ...

Male redbacks, they're fairly small, and once they're off their webs, they're really vulnerable to predators like jumping spiders and ants. If a male redback is in his web and an ant enters the ...

But some spiders don't have to spin webs. This spider can jump, and so it is called a jumping spider. Some jumping spiders are really colourful. Jumping spiders have amazing eyes which help them ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

Several of the tiny jumping spiders (4mm long), along with 500 other species, were collected during the annual BioBlitz nature survey last year at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus ...

The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. The eyesight of these ...