People often imagine spiders spinning endless webs without ever running out of silk, but their bodies don’t work like a bottomless spool. Silk is a natural material they produce, and although they ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and grassland in the background. Focus on cobweb.© Tanes ...

I notice a thin, shiny spider thread stretched across the field and caught on my metal detector. At first, it looks like a ...

The ants launched by this spider catapult apparently experience 15 times the G-force felt by fighter jet pilots.