Ever stumbled on a spider web that just left you scratching your head? That’s what happened with a TikTok clip featuring this bizarre, sheet-like web that looked more like a stretchy plastic film than ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using ...

The fake spider is about an inch long, and its builder—a tiny spider that’s only about a quarter of an inch long—can shake the web to make the decoy appear to move.

Two views of a slingshot spider (Theridiosoma gemmosum) web. The right image shows the web’s cone shape with a spider at the tip. Reproduced with permission of The Company of Biologists.

The Australian Reptile Park has introduced its largest male funnel-web spider yet — named Hemsworth, after the tall Hemsworth brothers. The male funnel-web is one of the most venomous spiders in ...

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...