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

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

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

A silver Argiope spider in a spiderweb with stabilimenta. Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When imagining a spider web, chances are most people envision a typical spiral, wheel-shaped ...

The extraordinary anti-predator strategy of two tiny, orb-weaving spider species has been uncovered by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Florida.

An Australian company has created a significant evolution of the construction industry in the form of Charlotte, a spider-like robot capable of building houses.

Recent findings have shed light on the long-standing mystery of zigzag decorations, known as stabilimenta, found in certain ...

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

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

Right now, as you read this, more than 110,000 arachnids are crawling around the world’s largest spiderweb. The ...

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