A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.

Using microscopy and 3D imaging, they were able to examine the fossils’ minute details. It revealed they had spinnerets and ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...