The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Around the world, there are many animals, large and small, who build their own homes. Using a remarkable amount of creativity ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

Ladybugs, though popular, were surprising underachievers in pear orchards. Of the 38 collected, only 17% had spider mite DNA ...

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This enormous squirrel, also called the Indian giant squirrel, has a stunning mix of orange, purple, and brown fur.

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

While it’s too much of a stretch — even for Davidson — to take the Spiders all the way this time around, there’s plenty of reasons to believe he can at least add another scalp to his ...

A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to the UK, arriving in a West Sussex nursery hidden inside an olive tree ...