Learn why “spider season” and deadly Sydney funnel-web season are different, and how to stay safe when spiders are on the move.

Tiny spiders craft life-sized replicas of themselves in a bid to survive predators—nature’s surprising act of deception.

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Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spider silk is a protein fiber that forms tough, crystal-like sheets. A spider makes several silk types in different glands, then pulls a liquid mixture through microscopic spigots on the spinnerets, ...

After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today we're shining a spotlight on one of the most loathèd ...