Uploading a fake trailer he claimed was directed by Eli Roth was just the beginning of a journey with the 2014 horror feature ...

I n a dank cave below the Albanian-Greek border, scientists have uncovered a spider web that’s technically big enough to ...

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. These ...

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 Chang on a debate in spider web architecture, how the details ...

Ang McGaughran has received funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand, from the MBIE Smart Ideas funding programme, and from Genomics Aotearoa. Manpreet K Dhami receives funding from the Ministry ...

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 ...

Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning spiraling strands to snag prey. In the mornings, the intricately laid silk ...

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Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs. Trilobites Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google An orb weaver spins its web in Mission Trails. Photo: Courtesy of reader Christina T.