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

Some East Coast residents might be doing a double-take when noticing a unique critter in their backyards, as the latest ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

In the dense forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, the survival of a spider relies not only on its ability to prey on insects but also on its capacity to resist a threat coming from the skies. A new study ...

Take the dewdrop spiders, a group of tiny tropical species that specialise in pilfering prey caught by larger orb-web spiders ...