Spiders are amazing creatures, and orb-weaving spiders make some of the most intricate structures in nature. Their ...

Spiders ingeniously consume their old webs to recycle vital proteins and nutrients, a process crucial for energy conservation ...

Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he’d seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible ...

Deep inside a pitch-black chamber on the Albanian–Greek border, scientists have stumbled upon something straight out of a ...

The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the ...

Right now, as you read this, more than 110,000 arachnids are crawling around the world’s largest spiderweb. The ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.