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Jumping spiders, the flamboyant dandies of the eight-legged set, have names inspired by peacocks, cardinals and other colorful icons. But University of Cincinnati associate professor Nathan Morehouse ...

What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

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Maybe they just needed some contouring and a little more mascara? Researchers have found a strange-but-effective tool to test the theory that male jumping spiders evolved colorful stripes to ward off ...

A new genetic analysis of the jumping spider genus Flacillula has purged unrelated species and described seven new ones, all endemic to Sri Lanka. The genus had been little studied since the type ...

An international team of researchers found that the brightly colored jumping spider Saitis barbipes could not see its own vivid reds. Jumping spiders, the flamboyant dandies of the eight-legged set, ...