Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

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

Q. My wife and I watch grackles each morning when they come to the mealworms in a small flock like a motorcycle gang of thugs. Redbirds, titmice and wrens take a backseat. When a grackle is on the ...

We consume nearly 400 million pounds of cranberries annually—but how they’re harvested might surprise you. Cranberry bogs are ...

Black widow spiders, known for their potent venom and distinctive markings, prefer dark, undisturbed areas for nesting and ...

Nature-made Halloween decorations looming around your porch? Well, you’re not the only one. Joro spiders are a massive invasive species invading the South, but how? Well, they’ve been around since ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

As undesirable as it might be, we're pretty much surrounded by spiders at all times, and if the arachnids' generally unsettling appearance wasn't enough to make that a vertiginous thought, consider ...

< New additions to the spider laboratory: the tiny spiderlings of the Australian golden orb-weaver spi ... Copyright: Karin Kaiser/MHH. The Spider Silk Laboratory at MHH is seeing a decline in spider ...

A critically endangered spider has been rediscovered in the UK after being unseen for 40 years. The find was called a “major conservation success”. The team that found the tiny orange-legged arachnid, ...