"Imagine a grape in the palm of your hand. That's about the size of their abdomen," Andrew Davis, a research scientist in the ecology department at the University of Georgia, says. He's talking about ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure from which “legs” branch out. The team proposes that the constructions ...

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

Do you hate spiders? Their legs, their eyes, and oh man, their webs. Well, it turns out that they don’t like you much either. Imagine that you’ve stumbled into the belly of the beast, and now you're ...

DALLAS – An eerie sight is greeting drivers in the Dallas suburb of Rowlett. Giant spider webs are draping the trees at Lakeside Park near Lake Ray Hubbard. "In the trees along a football field-length ...

BOSTON - The giant flying Joro spider was nowhere to be found in Boston on Thursday. The paparazzi have been out in full force on Mount Vernon street, hoping to get a shot of the venomous black and ...

ATHENS, Greece -- It's not quite the World Wide Web - but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, ...

WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North ...