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Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their webs. Spiders didn't begin their journey on Earth in the same way as they ...

What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

What’s scarier than a spider? A really big spider, of course. A newfound defensive tactic takes advantage of this idea: researchers documented spiders building giant spiderlike silhouettes on their ...

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Joro spiders have been spotted in areas across the county, but what are these invasive creatures? When will they be returning? Will they be expanding? While the Joro spider season, which spans from ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — This U.S. military base near Hiroshima has killed more venomous spiders this year than in any year since recordkeeping began nearly two decades ago, Japanese ...

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 ...