Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handout photo made available today shows a scientist standing in front of a giant spider web. Researchers have identified what ...

The new orb-weaver species was one of three significant discoveries made during a survey at Ecuador’s Tiputini Biodiversity Station, researchers said. Photo by Madeline Hogan via Unsplash Deep in the ...

Researchers used a method called “fogging” to reveal the eight new species hidden in the canopy of the Xishuangbanna forest, according to a study. MChe Lee Unsplash In southern China, between the ...

Yanoviak, Stephen P., Munk, Yonatan, and Dudley, Robert K. 2015. "Arachnid aloft: directed aerial descent in neotropical canopy spiders." Journal of the Royal Society ...

From the dangerous tarantulas on the forest floor to the high flyers in the canopy spiders thrive on every level of this tropical rainforest Starting on the ground and working the way up to the top ...

Sorensen, L. L., Coddington, Jonathan A., Griswold, C. E., Hormiga, G., and Place Bjorn, P. de. 2002. "Inventorying and Estimating Sub-Canopy Spider Diversity using ...