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 ...

Q. My wife and I watch grackles each morning when they come to the mealworms in a small flock like a motorcycle gang of thugs ...

We consume nearly 400 million pounds of cranberries annually—but how they’re harvested might surprise you. Cranberry bogs are ...

Black widow spiders, known for their potent venom and distinctive markings, prefer dark, undisturbed areas for nesting and ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Spiders, whether you know it or not, are all around us, but what may alarm you is the truth about how much biomass these ...

We've been so engrossed in coverage of 3I/ATLAS that we nearly failed to note another comet currently in Earth's skies. This ...

Can a black widow spider bite kill you? Yes. It's one of the deadliest spiders on earth. According to information from Ohio State University, the venom can be 15 times more potent than a rattlesnake's ...