The new species was named the “glossy jumping spider” after its iridescent scales. Caleb JTD, Parag A, Datta-Roy A Zoosystematics and Evolution Ayush Parag has spent a lot of time in the grasslands of ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

Some moths and flies disguise themselves as the jumping spiders that eat them – and the trick is highly convincing when viewed from a predator’s perspective. This might allow such prey to escape ...

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo discovered three new species of jumping spiders, according to a new study. Brogan L Pett While sorting through leaves littering a forest floor in the ...

NEWTON COUNTY, Ind. — 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 ...

The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an ...