Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the ...

A new study published in the open-access Biodiversity Data Journal suggests that spider webs—particularly those incorporating ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Charlotte’s web is made for more than just trapping prey. A study of orb weaver spiders finds their massive webs also act as auditory arrays that capture sounds, possibly giving ...

Motion capture work for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is now complete, according to Yuri Lowenthal, the voice actor behind Peter Parker in Insomniac Games‘ critically acclaimed web-slinging PlayStation games.

Gelanor siquirres, a species of pirate spider, descends from its dragline while pursuing prey in a Costa Rican rainforest. Credit: Gilbert Barrantes / Laura Segura Hernández / Diego Solano Brenes ...

If Miss Muffet in the children’s nursery rhyme had known more about garden spiders, she might not have been so frightened. Spiders are beneficial garden inhabitants that are much more interested in ...