Peacock spiders are well known for their elaborate dances – but their extraordinary jumps smash speed records.

Most of the copycat spiders belong to a few families of hunting spiders, including Salticidae or jumping spiders. The specimen in the Colombian copal appears to be a jumping spider. Spiders that ...

The WSC, based at the Natural History Museum of Bern in the Swiss capital, said the 50,000th spider registered is the Guriurius minuano, which belongs to the Salticidae family of jumping spiders ...

Bagheera kiplingi, a jumping spider from Central America, is unique for its largely herbivorous diet, primarily feeding on acacia Beltian bodies. Unlike other carnivorous spiders, B. kiplingi ...