Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

There's a new meme on Twitter that involves juxtaposing a character or public figure's torso alongside a pair of legs wearing thigh-high boots. The legs in question belong to Lisa, a member of K-pop ...

Spider legs seem to have minds of their own. According to findings published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, each leg functions as a semi-independent “computer,” with sensors that read ...

When a spider crawled into the corner of a research lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas and curled up to die, it surely never imagined that it would become the inspiration for researchers’ mad ...

Eight spindly legs are one of a spider's most distinctive features. And yet these resilient arachnids have been known to survive with over half of them missing. Jul Smith found one such specimen ...

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.

I’ve recently started to hear tales of unwelcome houseguests. But instead of unwashed dishes and loud music, the complaints focus on the visitors’ habit of creeping out from tiny hiding places, ...

Fritz Vollrath receives funding from The Leverhulme Foundation and European Research Council (ERC) as well as Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), UK Science Research Councils, Royal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but ...