Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren't ...

A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

A close look at a viral spider video reveals how web-building spiders use silk to restrain, transport, and consume large prey.

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. Two Republicans join Democrats to ...

Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted “doppelgängers” convincing enough to ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...

Things are about to get even wilder at the San Antonio Zoo. From 10 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, the zoo will be invite guests to watch animals, including lions, tigers and black Bears, eat prey ...

In recent years, the news has been full of reports of invasive pests that range from annoying to dangerous. One such invasive pest was the Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) which was first reported ...