In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...

"Spiders perform the drawing process naturally," said Northwestern Jacob Graham, the study's first author. "When they spin silk out of their silk gland, spiders use their hind legs to grab the ...

Daddy-long-legs, which look like spiders with thin legs much longer than their bodies, are generally seen as harmless. But according to many versions of a popular rumor, daddy-long-legs are ...