Sometimes you have to fake it to make it. Scientists from Peking University in China have discovered a spider species that does exactly that by mimicking the behavior of ants to avoid being eaten. To ...

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 ...

A few days ago someone sent me an essay available online by Jake Buehler called "Watch an ant rip apart a spiderweb to rescue a sibling" that really piqued my interest. It's based on a forthcoming ...

Right now, as you read this, more than 110,000 arachnids are crawling around the world’s largest spiderweb. The ...

Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...