Portiaspiders are endowed with some incredible superpowers. Their hunting skills are as ferocious as those of animals many times their size. You can see one in action in this wonderful YouTube clip.

This lighthearted debut from zoologist O’Hanlon surveys the remarkable behavior and abilities of arachnids. Examining spiders’ hunting strategies, O’Hanlon notes that Portia jumping spiders will wait ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These spiders are not that big, less than ¼ inch long, but they can jump 50 times their body length. They do this using a kind of ...