When spiderlings begin life on their own, they go ballooning — that is, they drift off into the air on "balloons." In reality, these are long, trailing filaments of silk called gossamers that are ...

A mother's love is eternal. Or at least encapsulated in a fossilized tree resin that's 99 million years old. Adult female spiders – now extinct – were discovered protecting their already-hatched ...

Southern European spiders are genetically programmed to prefer harvester ants. Harvester ants are more than just a convenient snack for the southern European spider, Euryopis episinoides. The young ...

If you think your ungrateful kids just take and take and take, wait until you hear about the miscreant youths of the desert spider Stegodyphus lineatus. After tirelessly chucking up the contents of ...

A woman who owns more than 100 arachnids broke open a tarantula egg sac, filled with hundreds of tiny spiderlings. Rachel Marie, who posts under the name Tarantula Creep Show, has 111 tarantulas, and ...

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