Every spider can spin silk; it's one of the defining characteristics of the order Araneae, alongside venomous fangs, two-part ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...

For spiders that fling their webs at prey, a sturdy net is essential. A net-casting spider in search of a meal dangles upside down, holding a web in its legs before launching it at an unsuspecting ...

Deep inside a sulfurous passage that straddles the Greek-Albanian border, biologists have documented something no one had ...

Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and grassland in the background. Focus on cobweb.© Tanes ...

Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavata) first arrived in the U.S. over a decade ago, and they've since become known for building ...

A timeline of the spider fossil record -- Fossils -- Living fossils -- Chance and change -- Outward and upward -- Triumph over thin air -- Small changes, big benefits -- Spinning, running, jumping, ...

Close-up of Hyptiotes cavatus spider holding triangle web support line with front legs keeping web open, while using back legs to secure anchor line. When back legs release anchor line, spider and web ...