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 ...

The new species of spider was found in Argentina, according to a study. SIGNOROTTO F., MANCINI M. & FERRETTI N. via Zoosystema A small eight-legged creature burrows into the sand, scurrying into the ...

How small is "small?" Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick, equivalent to approximately one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. They're invisible to the naked eye and ...