Spiders come in all sorts of colors and patterns. While we all know about black widows and their iconic red hourglass marks, ...

This video compares spiders with other invertebrates across combat traits and hunting behavior. Footage highlights differences in venom delivery, strike accuracy, and engagement distance. Spiders ...

What’s scarier than a spider? A really big spider, of course. A newfound defensive tactic takes advantage of this idea: researchers documented spiders building giant spiderlike silhouettes on their ...

Jessiah Hahs Brinkley’s fear of spiders turned into fascination, and then infatuation. As a child, he had nightmares after smashing black widows with his grandfather in the eaves and crannies of his ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Sulfur caves are among the most extreme habitats on Earth. They are completely dark and filled with hydrogen sulfide gas, which is toxic to most life-forms. Inside, species’ survival depends on ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters ...

Nature-made Halloween decorations looming around your porch? Well, you’re not the only one. Joro spiders are a massive invasive species invading the South, but how? Well, they’ve been around since ...

Starting in September, folks in Upstate South Carolina and Georgia will inevitably come across the invasive large yellow spiders with their giant abdomens and long legs. They’re often confused with ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Continuing the trend of new characters, Amazing Spider-Man #16 introduces Plague RX, an ally of ...

Not everything that spins a web is a spider. If you find delicate webs that are intricately spun underneath a log in the forest, you may be looking at the work of a webspinner. A video from the ...