Spider legs seem to have minds of their own. According to findings published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, each leg functions as a semi-independent “computer,” with sensors ...

That spider you squished? It could have been used for science! At least, that's what Faye Yap and Daniel Preston think. Yap is a mechanical engineering PhD student in Preston's lab at Rice ...

"She had four legs on one side of her body and none on the other but was still very quick," she told Newsweek. "Honestly, it didn't seem to hold her back much at all." The spider, which Smith's ...

Huntsman spiders' legs also have twisted joints that enable the appendages to extend forward, and their alignment enables the spider to move side to side, similar to a crab. Males have longer legs ...

Here’s how it works. There seems to be no ideal number of legs. Humans have two, dogs have four, insects have six and millipedes can have over 1,000. So what made spiders settle for eight legs?

Daddy-long-legs, which look like spiders with thin legs much longer than their bodies, are generally seen as harmless. But according to many versions of a popular rumor, daddy-long-legs are ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...