Researchers trekking the remote Himalayas to study ants stumbled onto something unexpected lurking under a leaf, and it ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

This nocturnal rainforest spider has evolved an unusually specialized hunting strategy, using a silk-powered snare to target ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is ...

Two species of black widow spiders, the northern and southern, are found in Ohio, primarily in the southern third of the ...

A bird stalking African wetlands carries its young in a way so bizarre that witnesses have mistaken it for something far more ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the ...

We gardeners understand the concept of separating. We routinely separate insects in our garden into “good” and “bad” columns.

The publicity posters for the 1955 cult monster movie Tarantula! displayed a giant spider rampaging across the Arizona desert ...

They may look like spiders, but daddy longlegs belong to a different group of arachnids entirely. Here's why they're more ...

If you thought you could outrun a spider, think again. Scientists have identified the fastest spider ever recorded, and the ...