An extreme close-up of a jumping spider showing its large forward-facing eyes, with a detailed macro photography style that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The teeny tiny jumping spider, despite it's minuscule brain, is one of the smartest animals on the planet pound for pound. Most of ...

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators. Male jumping spiders also jump to escape ...

Some jumping spiders look so much like wasps that scientists named them for the predatory insects. But University of Cincinnati biologists wondered: Do these mimics really look like insect faces or is ...

By borrowing a trick from tiny jumping spiders, Northwestern University engineers have developed an extremely ...

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Regal jumping spiders are masterful hunters with their athletic leaps, sharp fangs and lethal venom. Regal jumping spiders train themselves from childhood to become masterful hunters. From the day ...

A tiny jumping spider has inspired a new type of 3D camera that uses very little power while still producing detailed depth maps in real time. Engineers at Northwestern University developed the device ...