As a recovered arachnophobe, I am very familiar with many of the ridiculous spider myths. Spider myths can stem from their ...

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin has leaned heavily on its deep-rear bomber bases — some over 2,000 miles ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

Spiders and scorpions have ruled as terrestrial predators for 400 million years, with their success often attributed to ...

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

Scattered Spider is increasingly making headlines of late, evolving its techniques and broadening the scope of its criminal activities against a wider array of enterprises.

The answer lies in a perfect combination of specialized anatomy, precise movement techniques, and the complex chemistry of spider silk—a testament to the evolutionary ingenuity of these eight-legged ...

Web-building spiders, by contrast, have poorer eyesight and rely more heavily on vibrations detected through their webs. This diversity in visual capabilities illustrates how spider anatomy has ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to the first-ever chromosome-level genome assembly of a sea spider ...