Many lovers of spiders profess a lifelong fascination with all things creepy crawly. Heather Bruen's affinity for spiders was borne out of necessity. Tolerance turned to acceptance, and "accidentally ...

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 ...

Jumping spiders exhibit a remarkable repertoire of behaviours underpinned by a sophisticated visual system and emerging cognitive attributes. Their capacity for acute spatial resolution, rapid ...

The most important thing you must ever do when it comes to jumping spiders is to keep them away from your children, and the reason is simple: They are very cute, and once your kids get a good look at ...

For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

What Is a Jumping Spider? It's no wonder jumping spiders are called that; they can jump 10-40 times their body length using their powerful back legs. They belong to a family of spiders called ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Jumping ...

While brain worms have made many horrifying headlines this year, the good folks at the New England Journal of Medicine offer some fresh nightmare fuel ahead of Halloween: an ear spider. And there’s a ...

For the majority of the year, native spiders take up residence in our homes and gardens, but tend to stay out of sight (and, cucially, mind). It's only in autumn, when the weather takes a turn, that ...

With their big eyes, furry legs and exotic colors, jumping spiders are described as some of the most adorable arachnids — but members of its more than 5,000 species are amazing in other ways, too.