Body growth in spiders (indeed in all arthropods) happen by jettisoning the tough outer shell while a new skin grows beneath, ...

Eight spindly legs are one of a spider's most distinctive features. And yet these resilient arachnids have been known to survive with over half of them missing. Jul Smith found one such specimen ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Spiders use their eight legs to walk, but daddy longlegs are different in that they use just six legs to walk — which raises the question of what they use those other appendages for. Well, it turns ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but ...

Engineers find they can manipulate the legs of dead spiders to serve as grippers. Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead. Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to ...

Anyone who has watched a daddy longlegs spider move across a wall or garden floor has probably noticed something that feels slightly off. Even though it clearly has eight legs, it often appears to ...