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 ...

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Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say. When you ...

A venomous, flying spider could be making its way up the East Coast as soon as this summer. The arachnid known as the Joro spider made its way to the Southeast from Japan as early as 2013, and for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There are over 45,000 species of spiders in existence, but ...

Madame Web’s poor initial performance at the box office suggests that few people want to see it in a theater, let alone talk about it sight unseen. But there’s one aspect of it we should talk about ...