New research led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed that African social spiders—dubbed "hippie spiders" for their cooperative lifestyle—may not have distinct personalities after all. A study ...

Individual behaviour in spider communities far more fluid than previously thought Instead of fixed behavioural types, spiders appear to adjust their behaviour dynamically based on circumstances New ...

Spiders' social tendencies appear to stem from what Dr. Penna-Gonçalves calls being "lazy to launch," where young spiders stay home longer instead of dispersing after their first molt. "In those ...

Researchers peered inside the brains of huntsman and crab spiders using micro CT scanners and found while spiders’ brains don’t have to be bigger for them to live in groups, social spiders are wired ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social spiders are known to make communal webs that may host thousands of them, and finding a giant web structure inhabited by an ...