A new paper published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has identified and named 15 new species of spider in the Caribbean. Given the vernacular names "smiley faced" spiders due to ...

Dr. Ingi Agnarrason with a Nephilia spider, one of the 15 species named in the new study. Dr. Ingi Agnarrason with a Nephilia spider, one of the 15 species named in the new study. Courtesy of the ...

Call him the Caribbean Spider-Man. Anancy, the tricky spider at the heart West African and Caribbean folklore, will be celebrated at the daylong Anancy festival at the South Regional Broward ...

As a Caribbean virgin and a fully paid-up arachno-phobe, I approached the prospect of Tobago with certain reservations. A tropical idyll perhaps - but what about those eight-legged monsters?

the Hawaiian branch of the Tetragnatha genus of long-jawed spiders, and the Anolis lizards of the Caribbean. "Now we're thinking about why it's only in these kinds of organisms that you get this ...

To illustrate, let us look at the story of the Anansi spider. In 1928, American anthropologists Melville and Frances Herskovits arrived in Suriname, a Dutch colony on the rim of the Caribbean.

Widespread in Florida, the inch-long regal jumping spider is one of the world’s biggest—possibly giving it an edge against animals such as the Cuban tree frog, a Caribbean native now plaguing ...