Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

If you find yourself running into spiderwebs everywhere you go, you're not alone. Spiders seem to be everywhere in the fall. The webs multiply, draping across sidewalks, stretching across paths in the ...