Unlike spiders and scorpions, sea spiders didn’t go through ancient genome duplications, making them a rare window into how ...

The long mouthparts of a long-jawed spider (Tetragnatha montana). Photo: Cornel Constantin (Shutterstock) Spiders exist on a liquid diet of pre-digested bug slurry, but they also drink water.

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have created the first chromosome-level ...

In particular, they’ve evolved some really interesting mouthparts to keep themselves safe when targeting another spider. The most exciting thing I’ve ever discovered was the trap-jaw spiders.

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The detailed ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to ...

Two spiders are locked in an embrace, their mouthparts pressed tightly against each other. The embrace was instigated by the female: she had signalled she was interested in mating.

Without the mouthparts, researchers cannot pinpoint its closest relative, but they hypothesize it could belong to a wider group including spiders, whip spiders and whip scorpions.