Spiders

A female jumping spider went to great lengths in a leaping experiment.

"Number 16," a recently deceased trapdoor spider, was the oldest known spider in the world.

A horror-movie-like GIF shows an African trapdoor spider ambush.

Meet the spider that eats other spiders — with venomous chopsticks

Behold the tiny, luminous badonkadonk that could further the field of optics.

Scientists have unearthed desert spiders' underground-tunnel-building secrets.

Here's a look at the gory meal.

For the first time, a jumping spider has been observed hunting tadpoles.

One dark night in the Guyana rainforest, herpetologist Andrew Snyder serendipitously shined his flashlight on "a small glint of brilliant, cobalt blue" sticking out of a rotting stump.