Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...

Spiders are often treated as simple ambush predators, reacting only to what touches a web or wanders too close. Research over the past two decades has complicated that picture. Some spiders plan ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Long before modern predators stalked Madagascar’s forests, ...