Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

Spiders ingeniously consume their old webs to recycle vital proteins and nutrients, a process crucial for energy conservation ...

Though most people aren't the biggest fan of spiders, their silk is a biological marvel, and the silk of this species has ...

Giant communal webs have appeared around the world. Find out what species builds them and how they benefit from teamwork.

Two spider species have developed a remarkable defense mechanism by crafting decoys resembling larger spiders.

If you're an avid hiker, you may have heard the term "web-walking" before, and unfortunately it has nothing to do with Spider ...

We recently reported on a new discovery about those zigzags you see in spider webs. Silken decorations like these are known ...

A vast black-silk lattice in a Balkan cave may be the biggest spider web ever recorded, and it hosts two species that usually ...

Learn more about two spider species that use their webs to create complex spider doppelgängers for protection from large ...

Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he’d seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece ...

In the tropical forests of Peru and the Philippines, scientists found examples of spiders that made large decoys of ...

“The decoys created by our Cyclosa species are not just larger, but they are shaped to resemble a potential threat or an ...