On a sweltering afternoon in northeastern Madagascar, the coolness of a leaf’s shade is an attractive respite for a frog. But some of these oases may hide hungry architects: huntsman spiders. New ...

It was almost midnight in the Peruvian Amazon when scientists from the University of Michigan heard a scratching noise in the leaves and saw a dinner plate-sized tarantula dragging an opossum along ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --Biologists have documented 15 new predator-prey interactions between deadly Amazonian arthropods and a variety of vertebrates, including a plate-sized tarantula dragging a baby opossum ...

Revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the multitude of smaller animals without backbones – whether on land, in the air, or in water. Jaime trekked a long distance to this ...

Do you think the frogs and snakes ever get a little up in arms -- or, erm, hmm, snakes and arms -- or a bit jealous, rather, over all the attention spiders garner each and every fall? We don't think ...