In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...

Without these, how do spiders detect odors at all? Our study has solved these long-standing questions. We discovered previously overlooked wall-pore sensilla on the walking legs of male wasp ...

The wall-pore sensilla are located on the upper part of the male's legs (close to the body), areas that hardly come in contact with the surface when spiders walk, capture prey or mate. This is ...

The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests, is the biggest spider in the world, with a leg span reaching up to 12 inches (31 cm). The giant huntsman spider, found in Laos, ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but here are three that are guaranteed to ..