Image: Senckenberg Research Institute Now that's a daddy longlegs! Arachnologist Peter Jäger of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, discovered a new species of harves...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/17/The-Granddaddy-of-Daddy-Longlegs/
[caption id="attachment_27324" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Photo: Jurgen Otto"][/caption] This is a kind of jumping spider, and it's only about 5mm in size. The males have a colorful pattern on flaps th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/05/peacock-spider/
There are some 40,000 known species of spiders, but every single one of them is thought to be carnivorous ... except this one. The Bagheera Kiplingi jumping spider of Central and South America is the first spider found...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/12/discovery-of-a-vegetarian-spider/
The diving bell spider breathes air, but spends its life underwater! To achieve this feat, this spider spins a cocoon that works as an aqualung. The spider traps tiny bubbles of air in the hairs of her legs and brings...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/the-spider-with-an-aqualung/
