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.

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People tend to associate intelligence with brain size. As a general guideline, this makes sense: more brain cells, more mental capabilities. Humans, and many of the other animals we’ve come to think ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Portia spiders, known for their remarkable intelligence, have some of the most astonishing hunting skills in the arthropod community. That ...

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 ...