Spider silk, renowned for its strength, toughness, and fineness, is a natural protein fiber produced by specialized glands.

Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.

We’ve not found fossils before that showed this, and so finding this now was a huge (but really fantastic) surprise,” ...

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...