Tag: spiders

Stretching is key to spider silk's remarkable properties.

Wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi) female, ventral side. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it’s surprising how ...

Discover the world of Christmas spiders and their very special festive folklore.

These spiders have learned to walk like ants and look like flowers, but can these tricks help them escape their ...

Jumping spiders can leap up to six times their body length and possessing some of the keenest vision in the ...

Spider’s webs have been used as an indicator of winter weather through the ages, but this is not backed up ...

Though not technically spiders, the daddy longlegs genome could be key to understanding arachnid evolution.

These freaky looking spiders can sense incoming prey from more than two meters away.

Researchers took inspiration on spiders for this new solution

I know it's a long shot, but hear me out.

There's a spider in the bath!

Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the ...

Some of you might find it surprising to hear that a lot of animals engage in homosexual behavior.  Close to ...

Silk flows from a spiny-backed spider. Kunkel Microscopy, Inc./Visuals Unlimited, Inc./Corbis In a mind boggling act, spiders are capable of ...