Yet, despite its tiny body, the spider constructs webs of remarkable complexity. Eight spindly legs move with the grace of a ...

This is small compared to the several ... but is sufficient to allow a bee to electrostatically draw pollen off a flower before landing. To test his spider web hypothesis, Ortega-Jimenez sought ...

There are more than 47,000 species of spiders, and all spin silk webs to provide housing and catch food. Scientists say the silk from a spiderweb is five times stronger than steel. The living ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has ...