Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new ...

Sometimes you have to fake it to make it. Scientists from Peking University in China have discovered a spider species that does exactly that by mimicking the behavior of ants to avoid being eaten. To ...

It's a spider trapped in fossilized tree resin, but it looks a lot like an ant. In the creature-eat-creature world of nature, avoiding predators is a high-stakes game that requires ingenuity. Exhibit ...

A colorful jumping spider mimics multiple species of ants, and its repertoire of impressions seems to help it scare off one of its fiercest predators. By Sam Jones Siler collingwoodi is a spider that ...

For one tiny Australian spider, somersaulting is the secret to taking on ants twice its size. The hunting maneuver hasn’t been found in any other spider species, researchers report September 19 in the ...

Scientists have uncovered a tiny wall-dwelling spider named Pikelinia floydmuraria, inspired by Pink Floyd. Despite its size, ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...