Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

It's the stuff of nightmares - or even the hit TV show and video game The Last of Us: a novel fungus that turns its hosts ...

“Our research uncovered hidden diversity among funnel-web spiders,” added Stephanie ... is actually comprised of three different species. Loria and her colleagues reclassified them as the ...

A novel fungus named after David Attenborough that turns its hosts into 'zombie spiders' has been found on the UK and Ireland border.

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders ... a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different ...

Venomous spiders are spreading across the UK and hospitalising a record number of people. Only 10 species currently in the country have the fangs and jaw muscles needed to penetrate human skin.

That over a lifetime, humans swallow around 20 spiders in our sleep. Now, given that the average life expectancy in the UK is over the ... while we may have some species of spider that are harmful ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered ... However, experts have now identified three different species: the true Sydney ...

It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special organs called spinnerets, located typically on the ...