Study leader I.-Min Tso, an entomologist at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, first made the discovery walking through a research station in central Taiwan. Tso noticed Jackson Pollack-style ...

A Cyclosa ginnaga spider perched amid its silk web decoration looks strangely like the result of a bird relieved itself in the forest understory. Photo: Min-Hui Liu Deep in the forests of Southeast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird-dropping spider (Phrynarachne decipiens, Thomisidae) is a species of crab spider. It mimics a bird dropping in its appearance ...

Bird-dropping spiders might sound like a joke, but they represent one of the most fascinating and unusual survival strategies in the natural world. Found mainly in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, ...

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Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig around in: bird poop. That is the approach taken by newly discovered spider ...