Scientists just found a spider that hunts by catapult.

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

Orb webs look a bit like a dart board. ©Donna Bollenbach/Shutterstock.com Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the ...

When it comes to inventive ant species, Australia is one of a kind, and this newly discovered species that hunts by using a ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the spider silk.

For many people, the sight — or even the thought — of a spider in a spider web gives them the chills. Even without full-on arachnophobia, the prospect of bumping into a spider web in your yard or ...

Hone your backyard spidey sense with spider facts! Learn how to attract garden spiders and why spiders are beneficial.

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. By Adeel Hassan Even in a pitch-black cave, what appears ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...

Most spiders are solitary, aggressive, and quick to cannibalize their own kind. One species from Madagascar breaks every rule ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...