A team of researchers has found first-ever spider which can glide. The spider is found in South America and can jump from trees and controls its direction on the way down. The study's findings were published on Wednesday at the University of California Berkeley.

Researchers associated with the finding believe they are the first to document this gliding behavior in spiders, and published their findings this week in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Stephen P. Yanoviak, associate biology professor at the University of Louisville, along with his colleagues examined spiders in the genus Selenops called 'flatties'. It is an extremely flat kind of a spider which measures nearly two inches in diameter.

Researchers said these spiders are not known to be aggressive, and they blend in very well with tree trunks. As per researches, the research on the spider began as a side project 10 years ago as Yanoviak and colleagues examined gliding behavior of ants in Panama and Peru.

Yanoviak said, "Since then we've just been dropping whatever we can find out of trees to just see what the range of organisms that can do this is. We realized that living in trees is not easy if you don't have wings".

For the study they dropped 59 spiders and analyzed their flight path. What they saw was the spiders didn't float aimlessly. Researchers wrote that every single spider targeted trajectories and landed on nearby tree trunks. Not only do the spiders seem to float to targets, they can also adjust themselves mid-flight, they added.