This jumping spider took down prey twice its size, and its hunting methods might be unorthodox, but they work.

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 ...

If ever you were to fall in love with a spider, it would surely be Salticidae. Known as the jumping spiders, they are gloriously fuzzy with eyes straight out of Pixar, and the world has just been ...

Jumping spiders have four eyes densely packed in a row: two large principal eyes and two small lateral eyes. The spider uses its lateral eyes to sense the motion of an object, such as a fly, which ...

Jumping spiders have seen a huge surge in popularity on TikTok, and many fans are becoming first-time spider owners. CNN spoke to spider lovers about why these arachnids make such enchanting pets ...

Jumping spiders represent over 4000 species of spiders across the world. ... They have eight eyes — four in two rows, but you may only be able to see the bottom row that has bigger eyes.

I’m willing to bet many of you have, he’s a Jumping spider! I’d also guess that quite a few believe they’ve been bitten by ...

He also made an appeal on the spider's behalf, noting, "Like 99.95 percent of the world's >50,000 species of spiders, jumping spiders are not dangerous." Nyffeler agreed, noting that jumping ...

Jumping spiders can't move their eyes like humans, but the team observed their tube-shaped retinas moving through their clear bodies. Octopuses have REM-like sleep. Do spiders too?

What does the research on spider eyes say? Scientific research has been done on the eyesight of jumping spiders. They have the typical arrangement of eight eyes in four pairs. However, jumping ...

While spiders don't sleep in the same way humans do, they do enter periods of rest or inactivity. And some research suggests that regular bouts of eye movement coupled with limb twitching indicate ...