Spiders are pretty scary to plenty of people, but the terrifyingly large eyes of this species also set them far apart from ...

This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Jumping spiders, which hunt by pouncing on their prey, gauge distances to their unsuspecting meals in a way that appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, a new study finds. The superability boils ...

Have you ever seen a spider skitter under a cabinet in your kitchen, then spotted a similar one later in the day? While many ...

Jumping spiders, which hunt by pouncing on their prey, gauge distances to their unsuspecting meals in a way that appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, a new study finds. The superability boils ...

Biologists at the University of Cincinnati discovered that underfed jumping spiders lose light-sensitive cells that are key to their vision. UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Elke Buschbeck ...

Spiders in the genus Deinopis, which have the largest eyes of any spider, use their humongous peepers to survive in the wild. Credit: David Maitland/getty images Every night when the sun goes down, ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading causes of vision loss in Americans over 60, affecting nearly 20 million people. In AMD, eyesight deteriorates in the central region of vision, ...