For example, the jawbones of male camel spiders appear to be smaller and more "graceful" than those of female camel spiders, but Prendini said he and his colleagues aren't sure why.

You may have come across a 2004 image of an American soldier in Iraq holding two huge “camel spiders,” one of which had clamped its jaws on the other. Huge. As in, they alone were reason ...

The camel spider is neither a spider (nor a camel), but it is an arachnid (so are scorpions and ticks). Better described as solifuges, camel spiders have 10 legs, not eight as a spider does.

Solifuges, or camel spiders (order Solifugae), keep their pedipalps extended when moving through the environment, utilizing them much the way insects use their antennae. The male also uses his ...