with young spiderlings staying in their mothers’ nests for an extended period of time. To better understand this unusual behavior, Chen and his colleagues reared jumping spiders in the lab and ...

Spiders appear to have a lot more in common with cows, goats, and other mammals than we think. A study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found a jumping ... nursing their young even as they ...

Pruitt adds that some spider moms go so far as liquefying their own bodies to be consumed by their young. But this is the first time spiders have been seen nourishing their offspring with a milk ...

Spiders don't move their eyes like humans do, but they do move their retinas. Fortunately for the scientists, young jumping spiders are see-through, so the team tracked spiderlings' retinal ...

The jumping spider Toxeus magnus lives in China ... The “milk” is crucial for the survival of the young spiders, and surprisingly, it contains four times as much protein as cow’s milk ...

Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...

What she and her fellow researchers saw amazed them. Using an infrared camera, they observed the young Evarcha arcuata jumping spiders experience bouts of limb twitching as they hung upside down.

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine. Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch ...

Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...

But a surprisingly wide range of species could be able to do so as well. Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a laboratory. Every so often, their legs curl and ...