To test and study the Selenopsspider's gliding capabilities, Dudley and Yanoviak threw 59 individual spiders from a height and observed how they fell. The spider, which measures about 5cm (2 ...

The spiders almost always (93 percent of the time) maneuver in this way, gliding down a bit and then thwacking into the side of the tree, the researchers found.

Cho first saw wild ballooning spiders on a walk through Berlin’s Lilienthal Park – a memorial to Otto Lilienthal, a German aviation pioneer who died in a gliding accident in 1896.

Altogether, gliding seems like a great addition to Insomniac’s next Spider-Man game, and hopefully it will take the fans’ input on this matter into account.

“Overall, these spiders represent a remarkable evolutionary adventure in the animal conquest of the air,” conclude the authors in their study. “The discovery of gliding behaviour in Selenops ...

Gliding Spiders Found Falling From Tropical Trees Flat-bodied spiders that live in the rainforest strike a Superman pose to take control of their free-falls Rachel Nuwer August 18, 2015 ...

Forest floor predators or fish would quickly make a meal of a grounded tree-dweller. The spider, from the genus Selenops, is the only arachnid they found that was able to do this. Other arachnids – ...

It’s a big week for spiders going viral. First, there was the megalopolis spun by a few thousand spiders in Texas, now there are videos, and this article published by National Geographic, based ...

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Skydiving spiders in South American forests discovered Date: August 19, 2015 Source: University of California, Berkeley Summary: Arachnophobes fearful of spiders jumping, creeping or falling into ...

The spiders almost always (93 percent of the time) maneuver in this way, gliding down a bit and then thwacking into the side of the tree, the researchers found.