The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.

In a narrow passage deep inside an underground cavern between Albania and Greece, scientists pushed through waist-deep black water and clung to ropes to make a startling discovery. In the beams of ...

Some see them as architectural marvels of nature, while others can hardly bear to look at them: Spider webs both fascinate and frighten. While they usually measure only a few inches in Central ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music -- creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the ...

Jumping spiders of the genus Portia exhibit remarkable hunting skills, retaining visual information about prey even when direct sight is lost. These diminutive predators, found across Africa, Asia, ...