A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their doom. Like any respectable pirate, pirate spiders have an ...

A species of tiny, colorful jumping spider employs two lines of defense to avoid being eaten: camouflaging with plants and walking like an ant. Researchers report May 17 in the journal iScience that ...

River tubers witnessed a spider dashing along the water’s surface in central New Jersey on Saturday, August 9. This footage captured by Victoria Bovitt shows the spider “walking” atop a river in ...