Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...

Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies ...

Several types of spiders use this design of web and they are a highly effective way of catching prey using the minimum amount of silk and therefore expending the least amount of energy.

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

Unlike web-building spiders, wolf spiders chase down their prey on the ground, making them more like the wolves they're named after. Wolf spiders are found in a variety of habitats, from forests and ...

Each brown widow spider has six spinnerets that spin silk to make irregularly shaped webs. Sticky droplets on the webs catch their prey. The spider then casts sticky silk to trap them and injects ...