Unlike the majority of spiders, which dwell on land, the diving bell spider spends most of its life underwater. It is the ...

Turn away now arachnophobes, because this massive spider web will give you nightmares. Thousands of spiders have spun a giant "communal" web at a park in Rowlett, Texas. While it's unsure how many ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. “Spinning under the influence” is one way to describe recent activities in the Costa Rican laboratory of Smithsonian scientist William Eberhard.

Researchers from the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu in Estonia have developed a new robot that can build, or ...

Thanks to E.B. White's charming story, "Charlotte's Web," the sight ... Today, synthetic spider silk is used by NASA in space ...