Females are a dull brownish gray but — like their namesake, the peacock — male sparklemuffins pull out all the stops in the ...

The suburbs in one Aussie state continue to march steadily along the coastline. But some rare Aussie treasures are thought to ...

A male Australian splendid peacock spider. Pranav Joshi Unique hydraulics Jumping is an energetically“expensive” movement strategy. To perform it, animals have to launch themselves from a ...

The quantitative description of jumping movements, known as jump kinematics, has only been conducted for four of the 6,000+ jumping spider species known worldwide. On top of this, scientists have ...

"Spiders do not usually run towards people when they sense danger. This would be like humans running towards something like Godzilla," said spider scientist Sebastian Echeverri.

Jumping spiders – one of the largest spider families – get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators. Male jumping spiders also ...