Researchers trekking the remote Himalayas to study ants stumbled onto something unexpected lurking under a leaf, and it ...

If you thought you could outrun a spider, think again. Scientists have identified the fastest spider ever recorded, and the ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

A species of huntsman spider found in Queensland is the fastest mover out of more than 250 spider species analysed in a new ...

A tiny spider in the rainforests of Queensland has figured out how to hunt prey far more powerful and dangerous than itself, ...

In ecology, the principle holds that the more diverse and heterogeneous a habitat is, the more different species it supports.

For more than a century, scientists believed this cheerful-looking creature lived only in the Hawaiian Islands.