Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A trapdoor spider, known only as “Number 16,” was first ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is often linked to lifestyle: predators such as lions tend to have ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's coastal sand dunes. The newly identified Aptostichus ramirezae is a close ...

Two fossilised spiders have been found entombed in iron-rich sediments at a recently discovered site in New South Wales, Australia. One is the second biggest fossil spider that has ever been uncovered ...