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That ‘killer’ spider story you read online? Fake news, most probably

Cassie Freund 20 May 2022

In untangling a taxonomic web, Sri Lankan researchers describe seven new jumping spiders

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Jan 2022

Here goes nothing: Male spiders found giving females silk-wrapped zilch

Anna Nordseth 22 Feb 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020

The world’s a stage for these four new jumping spiders from Sri Lanka

Ifham Nizam 16 Jun 2020

Sex organs reveal new jumping spider species in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2020

Predators disproportionately impacted by human land use changes, study finds

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2020

New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in ‘complex way’

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2020

Stylish jumping spider named after late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2019

Photos: Here are the winners of the 2018 British Ecological Society photo contest

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

Online citizen science data platforms help scientists predict species ranges

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Aug 2018

A warmer climate tinkers with Arctic spider’s choice of prey

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

New ‘goblin spiders’ from Sri Lanka named after Enid Blyton characters

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

Stranger than fiction? New spiders found in Brazil named after creatures from popular fantasy stories

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2018

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2017

Mike Gaworecki 28 Dec 2017

Meet the new Bernie Sanders spider

Mike Gaworecki 29 Sep 2017

Australian spider named for world champion surfer

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jun 2017

50 new spiders discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 12 May 2017

This new spider looks like the sorting hat from Harry Potter

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Dec 2016

Scientists have discovered six new dancing peacock spiders in Australia

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

New tarantula named after Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jul 2016

7 new brilliantly-colored peacock spiders discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jun 2016

Australia announces a new spider species called ‘Brian’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Mar 2016

Meet the new spider named after Johnny Cash

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Dec 2014

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