Spiders in this toxic sulfur cave have built a thriving spider metropolis and the largest spider web complex in the world!

Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square ...

These circular creations are made by a class of spiders called orb weavers that includes lots of common garden spiders. They adjust their design based on which insects they’re most likely to capture: ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile ...

If you were to quickly look at the image below, what would you think it was? At first glance, it seems to be a ...

Learn more about two spider species that use their webs to create complex spider doppelgängers for protection from large ...

Scientists seem to have quite a fascination with spiderwebs. Different experts, for example, have turned spiderweb vibrations into haunting music. Or studied how the spindly arachnids structure their ...

Arachnophobes often cite spiders’ unpredictable movement as the basis of their fear, pointing out how each spindly leg seems to lift, flex, and probe with a menacing degree of autonomy. Perhaps ...

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