A new species of spider that resembles Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night” painting has been discovered in Australia. The spider is one of seven new species of Peacock spider identified by Joseph ...

Are you afraid of spiders? Most people are, but you might change your mind after learning about three newly-described peacock spiders, Maratus species, discovered in southwestern Australia. In fact, ...

Peacock spiders are hardly the kind of arachnid worthy of fear; these colorful, rice-sized, eight-legged creatures are famous for their bright, rainbow-hued buttocks, elaborate mating dances and ninja ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you notice a tiny, strikingly coloured spider performing an elaborate courtship dance, you may have seen your first peacock ...

Three new peacock spiders have been revealed by an Australian taxonomist, but he swears they are “harmless” and “charismatic”. The species from Western Australia were revealed by Joseph Schubert, who ...

They're fuzzy. They're colorful. And they wave their legs in the air like they just don't care. They're peacock spiders, a group of tiny arachnids that are small in stature but giants in the charisma ...

If you notice a tiny, strikingly colored spider performing an elaborate courtship dance, you may have seen your first peacock spider. As Perth's suburbs sprawl ever further north and south, it means ...