Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds ...

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure from which “legs” branch out. The team proposes that the constructions ...

SEATTLE — From Fear to Fascination. That's the name of a new exhibit at the freshly-revamped Pacific Science Center that's focused on spiders. The exhibit challenges common misconceptions and explores ...

The discovery started at the Zoological Collections Laboratory in Pinheiral, Rio de Janeiro. While examining young spiders, ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

Most Bay Area hikers pass right by without ever noticing, but a careful eye can spot tiny towers rising up from the forest floor. These mysterious little tubes, barely an inch high, are the homes of a ...

Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR’s Ailsa... This week in science: spiders, TV pixels and storytelling ...