Alright, hands up who’s looking at this and ­humming the theme tune to The Brady Bunch? Funnily enough the pop culture ...

They’re cute, curious, and won’t get off our kitchen bench. The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but if a jumping spider wants to take up ...

Two fossilised spiders have been found entombed in iron-rich sediments at a recently discovered site in New South Wales, Australia. One is the second biggest fossil spider that has ever been uncovered ...

Some jumping spiders look so much like wasps that scientists named them for the predatory insects. But University of Cincinnati biologists wondered: Do these mimics really look like insect faces or is ...

After mating for the first time, most females of an Australian jumping spider are unreceptive to courtship by other males, and this sexual inhibition is immediate and often lasts for the rest of their ...