A newly discovered spider uses an ingenious method to launch its prey into the air, named after an ancient Roman weapon. The ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland ...

A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey directly into its web has been discovered lurking in the Australian rainforest.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black widow spiders, scientific name Latrodectus mactans, are among the most venomous of all arachnids. They are found in North ...

Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and grassland in the background. Focus on cobweb.© Tanes ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Few creatures inspire as much fear as venomous spiders. Just the thought of accidentally reaching into a dark corner and ...

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned ...

Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence Josh Newton at Curtin University in Western Australia and his colleagues have found that spider webs capture the DNA of creatures ...