Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly have ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Spiders are one of the easiest groups of invertebrates to watch and they're fascinating creatures. Here are some of our ...

Some of nature's smallest predators are also the most disturbing, evolving ingenious ways to devour their prey while still ...

What’s new? What’s trendy? What haven’t I explored? Such questions often dictate our travel plans, but sometimes, we’d be better off asking the opposite: What’s old? What’s impervious to being in ...

From highly poisonous frogs to fluffy critters that can turn terrifying when disturbed or threatened, here are the deadliest ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

With a jet black body and bright yellow markings, joro spiders look scary. But scientists say they’re actually pretty shy. A female joro spider tends her web in Oconee County, Georgia, in 2021. Of ...

More than 3,500 venomous spiders – including black widows and redbacks – have been exterminated at a US military base in western Japan, alarming residents and officials already struggling with a rise ...

Jaipur: Residents of Shanti Path are facing serious disturbance as long-distance buses on Delhi Road and Agra Road are now frequenting their narrow residential streets. Some of these buses are further ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...