The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Scientists now know some spiders are smart enough to do both, bringing fresh meaning to the famous quote from poet Sir Walter Scott.

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the spider ...

Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

Researchers at Tufts University's Silklab have developed sticky fibers inspired by spider silk that may be the closest real-life example of Spider-Man's web shooters we've ever seen. These fibers are ...

Cavers found an “extraordinary,” first-of-its-kind spider colony in a cave along the Albania-Greece border, photos show and a study said. Photo from Marek Audy via Urák, Vrenozi, Głąbiak, Lecoquierre, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Web-Head was left to fend for herself against Creature X when Spider-Man’s spider-sense knocked ...