There are over 700 islands in the Caribbean Sea, formed by volcanic activity and tectonic shifts. Many diverse ecological ...

Spiders produce antifreeze compounds in their bloodstream to protect them from the cold winter. Find out more about how these ...

A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...

Venezuelan tarantulas have adapted to fill many different ecological niches. Learn more about the nearly 50 spiders native to ...

Spider-Man has one of the most impressive rogues galleries in comics, which is absolutely packed with iconic (or silly) villains. Due to the sheer volume of characters available, adaptations usually ...

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What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web ...

A silver Argiope spider in a spiderweb with stabilimenta. Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When imagining a spider web, chances are most people envision a typical spiral, wheel-shaped ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...