These senses help them find hiding spots in the desert, like the sun spider in this video. Their coloring helps them camouflage even more once they’ve found a hiding spot. A pair of pedipalps at ...

They must have made a strong impression on the soldiers stationed in the desert of the Middle East. Sun spiders can travel 10 miles per hour, the fastest of any arachnid. Sun spiders aren’t ...

To put the sun spider into perspective, that’s about half the size of ... They are primarily distributed in desert, semi-desert, scrubland, grassland, and savanna ecosystems.These arachnids are ...

Solifugids have eight legs as do scorpions and spiders, but only six ... are “those that flee from the sun” — an adaptive advantage in arid-land and desert dwelling arthropods.

"Because of their fearsome and unusual appearance, sun spiders often cause alarm when ... the most powerful bite of any creature in the desert. * Their "jaws," or chelicerae, which is the insect ...

Solifugids have eight legs as do scorpions and spiders, but only six are used for ... Remember that solifugids are “those that flee from the sun” — an adaptive advantage in arid-land and desert ...