“These are the fastest-known arachnids so far,” Wood told Smithsonian, referring to spiders in the Mecysmaucheniid family, which are native to New Zealand and southern South America. Wood named them ...

We found that these lighter male peacock spiders have a distinct jump choreography and kinematics compared to the heavier females. High, fast and steep We discovered that the splendid peacock ...

We discovered that the splendid peacock spiders accelerated at 127.8 m/s 2 —more than twice as fast as the previous highest known acceleration in jumping spiders. This rapid acceleration may ...

Jumping spiders – one of the largest spider families ... have evolved to escape from predators or to track and capture fast-moving prey in their natural environments. Though the lighter ...