Whip spiders (order Amblypygi) display a suite of fascinating behaviours underpinned by unique sensory adaptations that enable them to thrive in complex, nocturnal environments. Their elongated, ...

See top photos from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, including a highly commended photo of a whip spider ...

Whip spiders, considered by many to be creepy-crawly, are giving new meaning to the term touchy-feely. In two species of whip spiders, or amblypygids, mothers caress their young with long feelers, ...

Source: Maximilian Paradiz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Several years ago, biologist Daniel Wiegmann of Bowling Green State University decided he needed a new ...

The whip spiders were found on the Nazi side, in a wet, 260-foot-long tunnel near the courthouse, littered with rusted relics and off-limits to tourists. There they were, clinging to the wall: Not ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. About 18 years ago, Andrea Colla got an unusual request. Would he come survey the fauna of a Nazi air-raid ...

See whip spiders use their curious antenniform legs to spar in the lab. The hormone once associated with hugs and trust is now at the forefront of research on stress, adaptation, and the neurobiology ...

On a garden wall in a coastal town on Cyprus, a yearslong search for an ancient creature was successful. Datingjungle via Unsplash For the better part of a decade, researchers searched the dark and ...

Source: Maximilian Paradiz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Several years ago, biologist Daniel Wiegmann of Bowling Green State University decided he needed a new ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. About 18 years ago, Andrea Colla got an unusual request. Would he come survey the fauna of a Nazi air-raid shelter? Even by entomologists’ standards, the ...