Anyone who has watched a daddy longlegs spider move across a wall or garden floor has probably noticed something that feels ...

Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the orb-weavers, said to be descendants of Arachne, a figure in Greek mythology who wove beautiful tapestries and dared to challenge Athena to a weaving contest. Angry ...

Spiders that hunt in packs use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks, allowing them to kill prey hundreds of times larger than they could on their own. Of the 50,000 known spider species, just ...

Jumping spiders of the genus Portia exhibit remarkable hunting skills, retaining visual information about prey even when ...

Spiders might keep some arachnophobes up at night — but do the creepy crawlers get any shuteye themselves? A new study leads some scientists to believe spiders may snooze just as humans do. The ...

Spiders communicate using complex movement and vibration patterns. To find a solution for this long-standing problem, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln PhD student recently combined an array of tiny, ...