This gives you the size of the spider's main body — without the legs. It's a useful measurement for scientists who need to ...

When threatened by a predator, spiders can detach their legs in a process called autotomy – up to 40 per cent of wild spiders have missing legs as a result. Their legs fully grow back when they ...

This gives you the size of the spider's main body — without the legs. It's a useful measurement for scientists who need to compare different spiders. The most muscular spider species in this category ...

The tropical net-casting spider Deinopis spinosa joins several other arachnid species that can hear sounds from afar without the help of a web ... Holding a net stretched between its four front legs, ...

Without these, how do spiders detect odors at all ... The wall-pore sensilla are located on the upper part of the male's legs (close to the body), areas that hardly come in contact with the ...