Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

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

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

A newfound defensive tactic takes advantage of this idea: researchers documented spiders building giant spiderlike ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with precision while experiencing g-forces higher than those of fighter pilots.