This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

A picture is two-dimensional and yet, when we look at it, we perceive depth. A number of visual cues tip us off to the relative distances of items in a photo. One of them is focus; if something is out ...

Jumping spiders, which hunt by pouncing on their prey, gauge distances to their unsuspecting meals in a way that appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, a new study finds. The superability boils ...

This tiny spider looks ready to jump in this week’s reader photo Says Adam, self-taught amateur photographer with a strong appreciation for nature and macro photography: “This particular shot is of an ...

Photographer’s description: “Courageous Jumping Spider confronting nosy photog! We have 86 species of jumping spiders in our area, so named because they pounce on prey rather than trap prey in webs.

The jumping spider, famed for its excellent vision and pouncing skills, has long been an enigma to neurobiologists. The arachnid's body is filled with a pressurized liquid that helps it move, and ...

A Harvard research team has detailed a new form of depth-sensing camera inspired by the highly specialized eyes of the jumping spider. Compared with existing solutions, this new device is ...

Researchers have suspected the answer might have something to do with their four-layered eyes. Previous molecular and physiological work had shown that the third and fourth layers of the spiders’ two ...

There’s a lot we can learn from the way different animals see the world, whether it's a mantis shrimp inspiring a new cancer-detecting camera, electric fish that could help us see through murky waters ...

Spiders are known as cunning predators, but a new review in the Journal of Arachnology finds that many round out their diets with a side of vegetables. There are at least 95 reports of spiders eating ...