Researchers have discovered what could be the world’s largest known spider’s web, an arachnid “megacity” teeming with tens of thousands of the creatures in a cave on the Albania-Greece border. The ...

It may sound like something out of a nightmare, but scientists say they weren’t dreaming when they discovered a massive spiderweb that’s home to more than 110,000 arachnids inside a cave in ...

Scientists recently found more than 111,000 spiders living in what is being called the world’s biggest spiderweb. The gigantic web was discovered in the “Sulfur Cave” on the border of Albania and ...

Sulfur Cave's spider colony is one of the largest ever documented, and the species involved weren't previously known to assemble and cooperate in this way, Urák said. T. domestica and P. vagans are ...

What happens when a tractor sits untouched for years? This video documents the surprising moment we uncovered a machine completely full of spider webs and the long process of cleaning it out. At 41, ...

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The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems. Environmental DNA, or eDNA, has become a popular method. It involves taking a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A new study suggests that certain spider web decorations help a spider figure out where prey has hit the web. The effect shows up as a small time advantage and, more importantly, as vibrations ...