Humans and other vertebrates go through various stages of sleep, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep characterized by ...

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor is trending on YouTube for her explanation of how jumping spiders can help us understand colors. School of Life Sciences Professor Megan Porter is one of ...

Cute and clever, these tiny spiders are a favorite of many arachnologists. See what makes jumping spiders so special, including their intelligence, appearance, and affability. Most of us spare little ...

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 ...

Scientists build clever contraptions to study animal behavior like the hermit crab housing market. In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth College ...

Recently, Simone, an avid student of spider behavior, told me about Betsy Matson's fascinating essay "Jumping spiders' remarkable senses capture a world beyond our perception," and after I read it, I ...