Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to ...

The ground-dwelling jumping spider ... originally helped the spiders wrangle food. Now, the hairs provide 32,000 contact points per leg, enabling the arachnids to walk up walls.

Why jumping spiders you ask? Unlike humans, these spiders can jump up to six-times longer than their own body length from a standing start. In comparison, the maximum a human can jump is just one and ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

The WSC, based at the Natural History Museum of Bern in the Swiss capital, said the 50,000th spider registered is the Guriurius minuano, which belongs to the Salticidae family of jumping spiders ...