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.

The wolf spider does not deserve fear, loathing and hatred. The spider can be heroic, and it is the official arachnid of the ...

Watch as a spider, a skilled insect predator, confronts its prey in a natural setting. NATO awaits Trump response as Poland ...

Scientists observed these spiders holding fireflies as bait. They noticed that the fireflies remained trapped until their ...

The findings, published Thursday (Aug. 28) in the Journal of Animal Ecology, revealed the LED webs attracted three times more prey than the empty webs. When just looking at the number of fireflies ...

Ecologists have observed a species of nocturnal spider attracting prey to its web using the bioluminescent beacons of already trapped fireflies. This rare example of a predator exploiting its prey's ...

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...

Pholcus phalangioides, commonly known as the cellar spider or daddy long-legs spider, is an established species found ...

Wolf spiders have an extremely unique behavior amongst spider species: carrying babies on their back! Read here to learn more ...

Spiders give some folks the heebie-jeebies, but web-weaving arachnids produce a unique, versatile material that could be the ...

In Taiwan’s forests, researchers discovered a clever hunting trick by the sheet web spider Psechrus clavis. Instead of immediately devouring captured fireflies, the spiders allow them to glow in the ...

African social spiders live in colonies, but their young eventually eat their mothers. Discover why this shocking behavior ...