We humans like to think of ourselves as the masters of design but sometimes Mother Nature shows us that we're really just amateurs. That's exactly what happened with scientists studying peacock ...

Kristin is a science journalist in New York who has lived in DC, Boston, LA, and the SF Bay Area. Most recently, Kristin worked for PBS Newshour and National Geographic writing about science and ...

Editor’s note: “Critters” is a monthly series featuring insects, spiders, snakes and other freaky/fun creatures found in the Grand Valley. You know, the kinds of critters you aim to keep your distance ...

Net-casting spiders have the biggest eyes of any known spider on earth. Scientists who study spiders (arachnologists) have long suspected the two deep black orbs adorning Deinopis spinosas helped them ...

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, ...

Have you ever looked out into your backyard at night and wondered how many spiders are lurking out there? If you have a flashlight, you can spot them by the creepy green glow of their eyes. Most ...

Every night when the sun goes down, Florida's net-casting spiders emerge, startling onlookers with record-breaking, enormous eyes. Now, a new study shows that the two giant eyes among the spiders' ...

If a spider’s eight eyes don’t impress you, consider this: Some of them can even see in “true” color. Scientists have studied the vision in a group of brightly-hued jumping spiders and have finally ...

In a 1960s comic book, a bespectacled, weakling high school student named Peter Parker visits a science exhibit and is bitten by a mysterious spider. Soon, he is transformed into Spider-Man, a ...