An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to ...

In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.

Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. ... “Then they pull out one chelicera and leave the other one hanging out there with the spider prey impaled on it,” Wood says.

Once upon a time, 165 million years ago, there lived a spider who looked like a pelican. About the size of a grain of rice and just as quiet, the pelican spider tiptoed under foliage in the leafy ...

Hopper also added that visitors will be able to learn about a spiders anatomy, behavior, diet and how they impact the world of medicine and adapt to various different environments in order to survive.

Similar to spiders, harvestmen have chelicera and pedipalps for capturing prey; however, opilionid chelicera are modified into small pincers, similar to solpugids, ...

Solifugids have chelicera mouthparts as do spiders and scorpions. But solifugid chelicerae are larger and modified into powerful jaws for crushing, shearing, chewing and dismembering prey. Eyes ...

Notable anatomy: Males have iridescent green markings on cephalothorax and abdomen Memorable feature: Primarily vegetarian A spider is an unlikely vegetarian, but Bagheera kiplingi almost fits the ...