Some creatures in the animal kingdom have developed a clever trick for staying alive: pretending to be something far scarier than they really are. A new Nature study has revealed how this evolutionary ...

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself. By Alexa Robles-Gil Alexander Bentley, a herpetologist, often leads ...

An international research team, including the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), has described a new species of spider from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Taczanowskia waska. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Reddit A tiny spider with a big disguise is winning over Reddit. A Thailand-based Reddit user recently took to the r ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...