The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.

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Spiders are creatures that often trigger fear or discomfort. We find them quietly sitting in corners or quickly darting across the floor, and instinctively we treat them as pests. Yet, there is ...

Most Bay Area hikers pass right by without ever noticing, but a careful eye can spot tiny towers rising up from the forest floor. These mysterious little tubes, barely an inch high, are the homes of a ...

Scientists in Kerala have discovered a rare fishing spider that hunts fish in forest streams. The unique species reveals ...

A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others. When you ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR’s Ailsa... This week in science: spiders, TV pixels and storytelling ...

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