Though it might seem surprising to find seven new species of fuzzy spiders in a relatively short period of time, the identifications are solid, says tarantula expert Robert Raven, a senior curator ...

Instead of this resulting in fuzzy spider myopia, the insect’s rudimentary brain combines the varying images from most sharp to most out of focus and enables the spider to gauge the distance of ...

Not only is the Hyllus diardi spider capable of jumping more than two feet in the air, it can also melt the coldest hearts. That was the case Sunday when Reddit user jdk posted a GIF of one of ...

Though researchers scoured grasslands at Kankakee Sands in the hopes of finding one, it wasn’t until they checked a portion of prairielands on the property’s eastern edge that they came across a tiny ...

1, 2016. (National Park Service via AP) National Park Service via AP Even though the large, fuzzy spiders tend to give people the heebie-jeebies, the arachnids are generally harmless and pose no ...

Here’s how it works. Fuzzy, long-legged spiders may attack their prey with an ingeniously gruesome tactic — by covering them in toxic digestive fluids. "It really looks like there's something ...

The spider only touches the web with the tips of ... The silk acts like a fuzzy piece of Velcro and the insect bodies as the hooked piece of Velcro. A web made with a meshwork of these composite ...