Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

Have you ever entered a seldom-used room, only to be met by an unexpected web clinging to your face? Or perhaps during an early morning walk, you’ve paused to admire the delicate artistry of a web, ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

There are more than 50,000 species of spiders in the world, of all different sizes. They live in a wide range of habitats and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Dan-Dan Zhang received funding from Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet I Lund on spider research. Gabriele Uhl received funding for exploring the chemical sense of spiders from the German Science ...