The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if you got caught in a giant spider web.

Titled Feral Metaverse (Spider), the large-scale work is the latest chapter in Triantafyllidis’s ongoing “Feral Metaverse” project, which rejects Silicon Valley’s metaverse dreams, replacing the ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider rests underneath a leaf during the day. Scientists have witnessed the spider ...

High in the redwood canopy, we set out to build a four-story rope web with nothing but knots, tension, and a lot of trust, flying to San Francisco to learn from Charlie - the builder behind these ...

A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

Ajay Narendra, Pranav Joshi, Daniele Liprandi, Gregory J Anderson, Jonas Wolff, CC BY There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build ...

The first poster for Don’t Move has arrived, offering horror fans their most unsettling look yet at the upcoming creature feature from Maclain Nelson (The Saratov Approach, Once I Was a Beehive), who ...

Michigan is home to hundreds of spider species, and several are large enough to make you jump, but none are likely to harm a human and, frankly, they prefer to avoid people anyway. Among the 557 ...

A giant corn maze in northern Illinois is waiting to swallow your family whole (in the best possible way). This countryside fall spot turns a simple autumn outing into a full-day adventure packed with ...

Joro spider webs sometimes pop up in noisy spots. To figure out why, researchers measured spider heartbeats. Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavata) first arrived in the U.S. over a decade ago, and ...

The dexterity of this black wood spider is remarkable. A large dragonfly had already gotten caught in her web, and she had killed it. Now, she is using silk to wrap it up, a behavior spiders use to ...

They look like something straight out of a horror movie — giant spiders with legs stretching as wide as your hand — and now they’re being spotted across Southern California. The culprit is the ...