During the pandemic, researcher Daniela Rößler couldn't go out, so she started looking around her for her next research ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Goodacre, a professor of evolutionary biology who studies how spider silk can be used in medicine and engineering. It has been edited for ...

This cross section through the head of a jumping spider shows off the interior structure of four of its eight eyes. Jumping spiders have the most acute vision of any terrestrial invertebrate. In fact, ...

A Ph.D. student at the University of Louisville is taking her research to the forests of Panama, studying on an island in the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but here are three that are guaranteed to ...

A new field study of arachnid hunting behavior has shown that spiders forage for prey rich in specific nutrients, and their ...

I write about the world of biology. A captivating new species of ... is how morphologically unique this spider is. “The new fossil from Mazon Creek is evidently something very different from ...

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement. “They ...