It uses a tail that looks like a spider to lure birds trying to eat the decoy spider. When the time is right, the snake jumps into action and eats the bird. The spider-tailed horned viper is a ...

Lots of animals use mimicry to survive. Some copy the appearance of threatening predators, and others have evolved to resemble plants or rocks so they can blend into the background and avoid being ...

(Omid Mozaffari/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) A number of creatures on Earth possess a sting in their tails – but there's only one animal known to science with a spider for a tail. The aptly named ...