The juvenile spider sat in a glass vials, one of thousands tucked away in the archives of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest collections. To the naked eye, it didn’t look like much. Just another standard ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

Currently, more than 46,000 spider species stretch their eight legs in habitats across the world, in every country and continent except Antarctica. And those are only the ones scientists have been ...