Researchers used computer vision techniques and machine learning and neural network algorithms to see if artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

A "spider-centric" view of the ways in which the eight eyes that jumping spiders use in their worlds opens our own two eyes to the remarkable ways in which they are able to survive and thrive in ...

About 300 of those species live in North America. The most common jumping spiders in the U.S. belong to the species Phidippus audax, more commonly known as the bold jumper or daring jumping spider.

Jumping spiders like Maratus vespa mimic wasps during courtship. Even AI mistook them for wasps over 20% of the time.

To test this idea, the researchers collected S. collingwoodi, a non-mimicking jumping spider and five ant species from locations on Hainan Island in southern China. Back in the lab, they compared ...

University of Florida jumping spider expert Lisa Taylor, who was not involved in the research, says she would also be interested in how a bad night’s sleep could affect the spiders’ ability to ...

A jumping Spider (Evarcha arcuata) on flowers. These arachnids appear to experience visual dreams—and maybe even nightmares. Photograph by Stephen Dalton, Minden Pictures ANIMALS ...