As part of its mating ritual, the male peacock spider tries to attract a mate with an elaborate dance. This video shows it in ...

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.

Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with precision while experiencing g-forces higher than those of fighter pilots ...

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

Jumping spiders are an obsession for me. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, finding them in a matter of minutes used to be easy ...

This jumping spider lives in the forests of southern India and now has been identified as a new species, according to a study published Oct. 11 in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys.

High, fast and steep We discovered that the splendid peacock spiders accelerated at 127.8 m/s² – more than twice as fast as the previous highest known acceleration in jumping spiders.