Bird watching in the comfort of your yard is a wonderful thing. Feeders are great for attracting feathered friends, but you ...

Usually when people think about spiders, they picture something dangerous and terrifying, but some species are just plain bizarre. We travel from the forests of Australia and South America to the ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig around in: bird poop. That is the approach taken by newly discovered spider ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have figured out the mechanisms that enable massive Joro spiders to spin their impressively strong webs, which ...

A quiet top-up at the bird feeder turns unsettling when you spot spiders and webs. Are your garden visitors in danger, and ...

Two new species of bird-dropping crab spiders have been discovered in Malaysia and the Philippines, according to a study. Polina Koroleva Unsplash A scientist has discovered two new species of crab ...

My first spider—the one that started all this—was black, with a head like a garden shovel’s blade and eight beady eyes that all but disappeared against the velvet of its upper body. At the end of its ...