Instead of traditional naming based on traits or location, a Chinese arachnologist turned to Jay Chou’s discography, naming ...

The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...

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New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

A paper written by Chinese scientists, titled "Description of six new genera and twenty species of the orb-weaver spider family Araneidae ... and has resulted in 78 taxonomy-related papers ...

The spider’s sheer size means it could pose an ... and they got to work on the painstaking art of arachnid taxonomy. The scientists dissected the sperm receptacles of females and scrutinised ...

They relied on an existing taxonomy identifying six basic areas ... Their latest innovation is a web-slinging technology inspired by Spider-Man's ability to shoot webbing from his wrists ...

When Takahide Kurosawa, a Fukushima University professor of plant taxonomy, and others stepped ... They also evaluated biodiversity based on spiders, dragonflies, frogs, aquatic beetles and ...