From colour-changing chameleons to the humble stick insect, creatures across the animal kingdom have developed some weird and wacky ways of staying hidden. But now, scientists may have discovered one ...

Scroll down for the circled answer of the spider optical illusion A NATURAL optical illusion is hiding two spiders but one is much harder to spot than the other. The photo below shows two masked crab ...

Appearance: four long frontal legs that stick out at each side of the body. Females are 5/8 inch with legs; males are about a third as large. Females change between white, yellow and pale green and ...

Visual signals communicated at ultraviolet wavelengths, which are invisible to humans and are therefore more difficult to analyse 3,4, may be used by ambush predators to manipulate their prey's ...

Goldenrod Spider aka Flower or Red-Spotted Crab Spider (Misumena vatia). This spider photo was taken in my garden on July 28. It was on an asparagus fern. Fascinating facts: * Crab spiders are "sit ...

Two recent studies by ecologists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have shed light on the relationship between the slender pitcher plant and its 'tenant', the crab spider Thomisus ...