This video examines five spider species known for their unusual appearance and behavior. Footage highlights physical traits ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Spiders are arachnids, a class of arthropods closely related to scorpions, mites, and ticks. With over 45,000 species, ...

A Taranaki biologist is overjoyed after discovering what is thought to be a new species of spider.

Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.

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

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

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 ...