Wood’s fascination with pelican spiders (and the four other members of the superfamily Palpimanoidea) goes back 10 years. Previously, she unraveled the secrets of trap-jaw spiders, ...

WOOD: California - one of our iconic species is the brown pelican. It's such an iconic image to see a big brown pelican flying over the beautiful, dramatic California coastline.

Hannah Wood Most pelican spiders have bodies about the length of a rice grain, though some huge species can reach a centimeter in length. Jeremy Miller A pelican spider may be tiny, ...

The Pelican Wood Carver’s Guild’s mission is primarily learning and teaching the art of wood carving, but Oubre admits they often do about as much talking as they do carving.

Eriauchenius milajaneae is one of the 18 new species of pelican spiders from Madagascar described by the scientists. This species was named after Wood’s daughter, and is known only from one ...

Wood also suspects that pelican spiders can follow the dragline of silk all spiders leave behind when they walk. 47 Pictures of Vibrant Animals. 1 of 42. Black-browed Barbet.

All of the pelican spiders that Wood described live only in Madagascar, an island whose tremendous biodiversity is currently threatened by widespread deforestation. The new species add to scientists’ ...

Wood calls today's pelican spiders "living fossils," as the arachnids appear remarkably similar to species preserved in the fossil record dating back up to 165 million years.

The pelican stands 15 feet tall and includes baby pelicans in a nest that can be moved with a crank.

The gut-wrenching story behind a grandfather clutching onto a wooden pelican statue given to him by his grandson. Dave McFarlane's holiday home was reduced to rubble by a bushfire on Tuesday ...