High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

While spiders may be scary to interact with, they have many unique behaviors that can make them fun to learn about! Because spiders are so tiny, it may be hard to observe these interesting behaviors ...

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...