Despite their name, camel spiders aren’t actually spiders. They belong to the arachnid order solifugae and possess neither silk-producing organs nor venom. Remarkably, there are more than 1,000 ...

THREE volumes of the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, containing the proceedings of the physico-rnathematical section, have been received recently. In vol. xxii. Mr. Wyragevitch describes certain ...

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Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...

If you see a creature with eight legs, a furry body, and a spider-like appearance, you might assume it’s a spider—except in the case of the sun spider. The burrowing creature in this YouTube video is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Certain joints in the pedipalps of scorpions and sun-spiders lack extensor muscles but have elastic transarticular sclerites that store energy ...

This study analyses the role of body size and symmetry in the sexual selection and courtship behavior of Dysdercus maurus Distant. Sexual conflicts signaled by coercive mating, female resistance, and ...

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

A new species of arachnid, Gluvia brunnea, found after 200 years. Credit: Simon Oliver / iNaturalist UK / CC BY-NC 4.0 Researchers have recently identified a new species of camel spider, named Gluvia ...

The Associated Press has captured footage of a new species of arachnid on camera for the first time. Biologists in southern Spain discovered the new species - the first of its kind to be found in the ...

Spiders can be one of the worst nightmares for many people. A Reddit user faced a similar situation recently and posted a photo of a spider on social media. The picture shows a ferocious-looking bug ...

A man found a bizarre bug in his home that looked like an "alien" - he thought it was a "termite", but the truth was much more terrifying. The man took to Reddit's r/whatsthisbug forum to share snaps ...