A type of jumping spider called Afraflacilla had never been documented in India—until now.

Funnel-web spiders change the timing of their distinct courtship behavior depending on what microbes they’re carrying.

Spotted coin spider colors are a Swiss army knife of deception, bringing food closer, and keeping assailants at bay.

Over the course of their lives, the jumping spider Synemosyna formica wears two different ant disguises to fool preying birds.

A virtual exhibition of C.R. Percival’s slides reveals the natural world up close.

Without access to their mothers’ milk, Toxeus magnus offspring die within the first 10 days of life.

Scientists photograph a spider web in micron-scale glory.

In an unusual evolutionary twist, local stick spiders have come up with an almost identical repertoire of color morphs in multiple locations.

This discovery closes a 170-million-year gap in the fossil record.