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, ...

Two Cyclosa orb weavers craft spider-shaped decoys from leaves, silk, and dead insects, tricking birds and lizards.

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 ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

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 ...

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 ...

When temperatures drop, critters outside may come into your home looking for warmth. If you see more spiders than usual ...