Tag: spider

Scientists reveal the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually three distinct species, with Newcastle's "Big Boy" reigning supreme.

A male and a female crab spider worked together to mimic a flower.

It’s believed to be the largest spider fossil to be found in Australia.

Black widows have a really bad rep, but is it all deserved?

It doesn't cast a web, but the goliath frogeater has plenty of tricks up its eight sleeves.

It's a spider-eat-spider world out there, but these nifty males have evolved strong legs to get out of harm's way.

Turns out, they emerged in the Cretaceous, when T-Rex still roamed the land.

The silk of this spider is unique. Its properties have now been analyzed in a new study.

Unsinkable ships could become a reality with such technology.

Spider silk is just amazing -- and now we can finally use it in clothes.

Sometimes, it pays to be nasty.

This crazy spider can accelerate 26 times faster than NASA's shuttle.

Birds of Paradise have similar structures.

The National Aeronautics and Spider Silk Administration is very excited about this study.

So that's why...

This is so electric!

Spiders, goblins, and brownies.

Spiders ride the wind!

This study might help scientists build a new generation of super-agile micro-robots.

Spider meets scorpion.

The monkeys used in the study will be sent to an animal sanctuary.

Though they might look goofy, these assassins are ruthless killers.

This cute fellow has unique nanoscale structures that break light like a prism.

It's amazing how nature can evolve sometimes.

The artificial spider silk is non-toxic and the manufacturing process is sustainable. 

It's better than Batman.

In China's Yunnan rain forest, one exploring arachnologist came across one of the most peculiar spider species ever.

Tingling spider senses.

The findings could have implications for the survival of modern animals in the face of global warming.

. Perhaps the most impressive feature of spider silk is that it's taut even when it's been stretched to several ...

Though minute, these are far from insignificant as their pray have learned the hard way. In fact, it's their small ...

Scientists have identified a 1.5 cm creature that predates the dinosaurs by 100 million years. While not exactly a spider, ...

Geckos are the largest animals able to scale walls. They use the same mechanism as spiders and hundreds of other ...

Wasps are a nasty bunch; you don't want to mess with them no matter who you are. Not only can ...

Spiders are more adaptable than we give them credit for, and they can make pretty good sailors - a new ...

It's raining... spiders. Countless baby spiders are falling from the ski in the Australian city Goulburn, South Australia, covering the ...

Graphene - the one atom thick sheet of carbon arranged in a hexagon lattice - is the strongest material known ...

Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is one of the most common phobias humans have. But out of all the spiders ...

There aren't blood vessels you're seeing, but itsy bitsy strands of artificial spider silk. For some years, researchers have been ...

It's not every day that species get such awesome names - but then again, it's not every day that such ...

Scientists undertook the gargantuan task of analyzing the compound chemicals found in the venom of 206 spiders, and they discovered ...

Most spiders weave sticky, wet webs to trap their prey, but the feather-legged lace weaver spider, Uloborus plumipes, employs a ...

The Moroccan flic-flac spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi. Image credit: Ingo Rechenberg. A most peculiar spider has been discovered by entomologists in ...

  While browsing reddit the other day, I came across a most peculiar finding. One of the users, Decapod73 or Tony Alexander in ...

When you think about a spider, you usually imagine a big, silky, web used to trap unfortunate insects. But a ...

(c) RANIL P. NANAYAKKARA A Sri Lanka researcher has discovered a new tarantula species, and it's literally a big deal. ...

Spiders are truly remarkable creatures, but some of them are absolutely unique! This time, biologists working in the Amazon have ...

Trapped in the web, the wasp knows it's done for, as it counts the seconds to its impending doom. The ...

An extremely old spider has showed its face for the first time in almost 50 million years; buried in a ...

If you ever wanted to stroll "spidy" your way around the big city, your dream is one step closer to ...