Research has also delved into the kinematics of whip spider pedipalps during predation. A study found that while longer pedipalps are expected to enhance prey capture, the actual performance did ...

The sun spider is known for its great speed and powerful jaw. Oddly enough, sun spiders, which are also called wind scorpions or camel spiders, are neither spiders nor scorpions. They belong to the ...

Their body is divided into seven segments, with four pairs of walking legs and two pairs of leg-like pedipalps, which they use to sense and manipulate their environment. Unlike spiders ...

During the mating season, the Brazilian Wandering Spider’s behavior changes drastically. The males will approach females cautiously, tapping on the female’s web to signal their interest. They then ...

Despite having multiple eyes, spiders generally have poor vision and rely on their other senses to navigate. Spiders reproduce through a process where the male transfers sperm to the female using ...

Dan-Dan Zhang received funding from Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet I Lund on spider research. Gabriele Uhl received funding for exploring the chemical sense of spiders from the German Science ...

A larger and deadlier species of funnel-web spider - dubbed the 'Big Boy' - has been discovered by experts. The new species of the most venomous spider in the world was discovered by Australian ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest research ...

“Scanning electron microscopy allowed us to study minute details of the claws and setae on the spider's pedipalps, legs and the main body,” said virologist Michael Frese of the University of ...

Oh, spider Pokémon. While the real-life equivalent might be frightening beasties we’d do anything to get away from, we love the spiders of the Pokémon world. With that in mind, we’ve put together this ...

Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ... “Newcastle funnel-web males have got a much longer and thinner mating organ [called] the pedipalp,” says research ...