A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became ...

Discover 25 adorable spiders that are not as scary as you think! From peacock dancers to smiling faces, these fascinating ...

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

Scientists suggest social spiders are more about going with the flow than sticking to a role, after new research challenges the idea of fixed personalities. New research led by the University of ...

The brain of a sea creature that lived over 500 million years ago was organised like that of a spider – suggesting that arachnids may have not evolved on land as previously thought. Largest ever ...

Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in ...

Individual behaviour in spider communities far more fluid than previously thought Instead of fixed behavioural types, spiders appear to adjust their behaviour dynamically based on circumstances New ...