A new study from Clemson University, believed to be the first controlled bite study of its kind, tested whether Joro spiders ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an awe-inspiring picture of the Red Spider Nebula, disclosing intricate, ...

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited ...

The purpose of stabilimenta within the web is unclear. They could help collect water, regulate a spider’s body temperature, ...

Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.

Testing your base building and decision making, Dark Moon lets you become the captain of a gigantic mech as you try to outrun ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's ...

Two critically endangered tortoises reported stolen from the Indianapolis Zoo have been safely recovered, zoo officials ...

Spiders’ webs come in all shapes and sizes, from funnel webs to sheet webs and the classic orb web – the sort you imagine for ...

Brady Bunch creator Sherwood Schwartz recalled the scene in a 2003 interview with Retro Crush. “We had a spider wrangler ...