The spider spins webs that span entire lakes. Those webs are stronger than any other form of spider silk. The Darwin’s Bark spider, Caerostris darwini, was only known to people outside ...

A normal web of the orb weaving spider A. bifurca. “Spinning under the influence” is one way to describe recent activities in the Costa Rican laboratory of Smithsonian scientist William Eberhard. An ...

A poisonous spider from Australia is spinning its web across Japan, with sightings of the pesky arachnid increasing to about half of the country’s prefectures.