A Cyclosa ginnaga spider perched amid its silk web decoration looks strangely like the result of a bird relieved itself in the forest understory. Photo: Min-Hui Liu Deep in the forests of Southeast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird-dropping spider (Phrynarachne decipiens, Thomisidae) is a species of crab spider. It mimics a bird dropping in its appearance ...

Study leader I.-Min Tso, an entomologist at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, first made the discovery walking through a research station in central Taiwan. Tso noticed Jackson Pollack-style ...

Life as a spider isn't the easiest. As hydraulic beasts, the tiniest wound in the right spot could render them completely unable to move. Moreover, spiders get no love from humans, even though they ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig around in: bird poop. That is the approach taken by newly discovered spider ...