Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels its way across rust-colored rocks. Meet Paleotoca diminas, a spider new to science. The species, ...

Scientists caught on video for the first time a tiny, recently discovered species of ground spider. The spider, Cryptodrassus michaeli, was identified by scientists in Spain in 2024. However, the ...

For something barely 3 millimeters long, Cryptodrassus michaeli just made a very big debut. A newly identified species of ground spider has been captured on video for the first time ever, giving ...

A spider measuring about 3 millimeters has been captured on video for the first time. Cryptodrassus michaeli, a newly identified ground spider in the Gnaphosidae family, was officially described by ...

A spider smaller than a pencil eraser just made history on camera. It measures about 3 millimeters, and the first-ever video of Cryptodrassus michaeli shows it moving across the ground in southeastern ...

When imagining research into spider biology, one might picture anything from the horror writing of Ezekiel Boone to science fiction comic heroes such as Spiderman, but for several labs at UC ...