She starts first by examining what consciousness is for. Why would, say, a jumping spider evolve with a consciousness? The answer traces back much farther than those jumping spiders, because if ...

1. Flea Up to 8 inches – Can jump up to 200 times their body length. – Females lay up to 50 eggs daily. 2. Jumping Spider Up to 6.3 inches – Stalks and pounces on prey instead of using webs. – Can ...

WAtoday revealed last year that the only known habitat of the peacock jumping spider species Maratus yanchep was just 20 metres from Peet’s Elavale estate, putting it at high risk of extinction.

Beaty Biodiversity Museum Director Wayne Maddison has uncovered 30 to 50 never-before-identified species of jumping spiders as part of a Conservation International expedition to Papua New Guinea. The ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. The eyesight of these ...

Where could the egg have possibly gone? I'm sure Lucas and his friend will get to the bottom of it!

New York has a variety of spiders, but none dangerously poisonous to humans such as the Black Widow or Brown Recluse. This slideshow features those spiders commonly found in this state.