It's not just the dazzling colours and slick moves of Australia's dancing spiders that make them special. There are more than 100 different species of the peacock spider, whereas most animals have ...

Deep in the humid rainforests of India’s Western Ghats lives a creature that looks more like a colorful digital glitch than an actual living animal. Formally known as Cilantica devamatha (previously ...

From bird-dropping mimics to legless burrowers, these newly discovered species were hiding right under our noses.

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers working across Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for ...

Inside Tacoma’s newest exotic pet store, stacked terrariums offer glimpses of about 200 species of tarantulas, in addition to other spiders, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, lizards and snakes. Turtles ...

TODAY DURING A SPECIAL CEREMONY. RIGHT NOW TO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANIMAL. SCIENTISTS AT UC DAVIS DISCOVERED A NEW SPIDER. CHECK IT OUT. IT’S A TRAPDOOR SPIDER WHICH LIVES ALONG CALIFORNIA’S COAST ...

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