Researchers have found trapped in amber a rare dinosaur-age scene of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web. The piece of amber, which contains 15 intact strands of spider silk, provides the ...

Spiders look unimpressive on paper: they are not especially strong, they are surprisingly fragile, and one clean hit can end the fight. Yet they have remained some of nature’s most effective predators ...

Fossil of ancient spider web only one of its type ever discovered Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web — a 100 ...