As a new app is launched to provide first-aid advice for venomous bites and stings, a reptile expert urges people to learn ...

It’s hard to imagine any event worldwide that has spawned as many traditions as Christmas. And we have no shortage of them ...

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

They're looking for warmth and food.

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

There are more than 50,000 species of spiders in the world, of all different sizes. They live in a wide range of habitats and ...

At least one of them is following in the footsteps of the 'Scooby-Doo' actor ...

A new study found that Clubonia spiders use their own antifreeze made of specific proteins that they sequenced.

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