Whip spiders, also affectionately known as tailless whip scorpions, may look fearsome but they are basically harmless to humans—even if you put them on your face, as I did a couple years ago in an ...

Spiders are generally predatory, with good vision. Most of them have eight eyes. Two large, forward-looking eyes have a lens for sharp focusing, and the rest are in various positions on the head for ...

While spiders may be scary to interact with, they have many unique behaviors that can make them fun to learn about! Because spiders are so tiny, it may be hard to observe these interesting behaviors ...

Spiders use their eight legs to walk, but daddy longlegs are different in that they use just six legs to walk — which raises the question of what they use those other appendages for. Well, it turns ...