Our centuries-old log cabin offers up a bottomless horde of them. They seem to be lurking everywhere, spying with beady eyes and probing for weakness with hairy appendages. Tiny black lobster-looking ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The unusual find is just one recent development in the weird world of webs.

Spiders communicate using complex movement and vibration patterns. To find a solution for this long-standing problem, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln PhD student recently combined an array of tiny, ...

Scientists have discovered a new way male spiders avoid being eaten after sex: catapulting away. After mating, some species of female spiders kill and eat their partners. The catapulting spiders are ...

In spite of 30 years of comfortable experience with everything living in gardens, I still yelp when I find a large brown spider in the bathtub. Then I want to move immediately — into a hotel where ...

At a recent family gathering, someone discovered a spider outside the window and everyone made quite a ruckus. All except me wanted to kill the spider, even though it was outside and not inside and ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Three venomous spiders found in the University of Michigan’s Shapiro Undergraduate Library led to the library being temporarily and mistakenly closed on Sunday and Monday. Here is that ...

In a narrow passage deep inside an underground cavern between Albania and Greece, scientists pushed through waist-deep black water and clung to ropes to make a startling discovery. In the beams of ...