Deep inside a pitch-black chamber on the Albanian–Greek border, scientists have stumbled upon something straight out of a ...

Scientists have studied what they believe is the world's biggest spider's web and found two species of spider are living side by side.

It might sound like the opening of a particularly skin-crawling horror story, but to a team of researchers venturing into ...

ARACHNOPHOBES, look away now – what might be the world’s biggest spider web has been found. Hidden deep inside a pitch-black cave is a mammoth web that houses upwards of 111,000 spiders, ...

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...

The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided web under tension, which it releases the moment prey flies into the web. Jessica Garb and colleagues sequenced the genome ...

For some people, the sight of a spider egg sac is incredibly unsettling. They may be tempted to immediately destroy or remove ...

Deep within the darkness of a forest cave in Ecuador, a “giant” eight-legged creature hung from its web. That’s when it was spotted by researchers. Scientists were exploring two neighboring caves in ...

You might not recognize the name Tegenaria domestica, but you’ve probably seen one. Known as the “Domestic House Spider” or “Barn Funnel Weaver,” it’s one of the most common spiders in the world. Now ...