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The smell of blood is a sexy scent for jumping spiders.
Largest orb-weaving spider turns up in museum collections.
One jumping spider has turned vegetarian.
Unlike most spiders, this Central American jumping spider species feeds on leaf-tips, rather than on insects - at least most of the time!
Some beetles play possum, and for the same reason that possums do: to avoid attention from predators.
Expedition in Papua New Guinea finds new species of spiders, frogs and geckoes.
News reports of a man walking again thanks to a spider bite are likely wrong.
Spiders display bizarre behaviors when they’re having sex.
Big male spiders may outperform smaller males in head-to-head mating contests, but it’s the smaller ones that get more action because they mature faster.
A researcher collects spider silk strands and combs through glands to find the genetic blueprints for silk making.
If males are small, they're easier to catch and therefore more likely to be prey.
A new spider species is named in honor of Neil Young.
Some of Spiderman's webby abilities are ripped straight from nature.
The giant fossil claw of the largest creepy-crawly found yet has just been uncovered.
Digital images show the insides of a 53 million-year-old fossilized spider.
Virgin female jumping spiders choose bigger, more dangerous males for their "first time."
200 Yards of spider webs cover trail in Texas park.
Boy with earache had spiders living in ear.
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