Adult jumping spiders are small, usually less than 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) in length. One centimeter is about the length of a grain of rice or the width of the nail on your pinkie finger.

This jumping spider took down prey twice its size, and its hunting methods might be unorthodox, but they work.

Jumping spiders have excellent vision, Nyfeeler noted. But, unfortunately for the woman's hearing, they're also "very mobile." ... Most spiders are identified based on adult characteristics.

The researchers collected mature adult male and female splendid peacock spiders and placed them on a horizontal take-off platform in a lab maintained at a constant temperature of 24 °C (75.2 °F).

Jumping spider (E. arcuata) exhibiting leg curling during a REM sleep-like state.(Image credit: Daniela C. Rößler) For the study, Rößler and her team used an infrared camera to record 34 ...

Tiny spiders have such huge brains for their body sizes that the organs can spill into the animals' body cavities, a new study shows. An adult female jumping spider Phidippus clarus. Photograph by ...

To avoid being eaten, a tiny Asian jumping spider walks like its insect neighbours, mimicking ants with strong defences that bite back with mandibles and may carry venom, according to a new study ...

The eyes of jumping spiders contain structures called retinal tubes, which can be moved to direct the spider's vision to specific locations. These tubes aren't visible in adult spiders due to the ...

The jumping spider may even be able to expand its habitat this way. To test this idea, the researchers collected S. collingwoodi, a non-mimicking jumping spider and five ant species from locations ...