A spider this small should be easy to overlook, yet it behaves like a full-scale predator with frightening efficiency. This ...

What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

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Ant-Man may be fictional, but the insect world is full of superheroes, of a kind. There’s a spider with a lethal high-speed trap. Worms that can knot and unknot themselves. An acrobatic six-legged bug ...

Spiders originated in the sea half a billion years ago, suggests a new study. Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – ...