A researcher has discovered two new species of spider in the Phrynarachne genus. Like other bird-dropping crab spiders, they ...

Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

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

The discovery started at the Zoological Collections Laboratory in Pinheiral, Rio de Janeiro. While examining young spiders, ...

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