Spiders are famous aesthetes. Many craft radially symmetric webs, first extruding long silken spokes and then spinning ...

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

One scenario is that the spider stands in one place (say, on a limb) and begins releasing a strand of the web material from ...

The tiny ray spider uses its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice with comic book characters, this ability is unusual in spiders. So I'm thinking we've all seen a spider ...