Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

Sometimes you have to fake it to make it. Scientists from Peking University in China have discovered a spider species that does exactly that by mimicking the behavior of ants to avoid being eaten. To ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon State University (OSU) researcher found a new species of an ant-mimicking spider in a rare fossil from Colombia, the university announced Monday. The specimen, which ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear. That’s why, ...

We typically think of camouflage in nature in terms of bodily coloration, enabling the species to blend in with the background and evade predators. But previous studies have documented locomotor ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon State University researcher found a new species of an ant-mimicking spider in a rare fossil from Colombia, the university announced Monday. The specimen, which ...