The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

At first, it looked like just a big spider resting on the ground—but when I looked closer, I saw it was carrying dozens of tiny babies on its back. This is typical for wolf spiders, where the mother ...

Scientists in Brazil discovered a new parasitic mite after spotting pearl-like larvae clinging to a tiny spider in a museum ...

What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

When small red devil spiders colonized the Canary Islands millions of years ago, they began one of the strangest genetic journeys of any creature. Although the Dysdera tilosensis looks very similar to ...

If someone told you there’s a spider in Hawaiʻi with a smiley face on its back, you might assume they’re exaggerating. Or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A macro shot of a jumping spider covered in tiny ice crystals, sitting on a frost-dusted leaf in a winter landscape.© A-Z Animals ...

Most Bay Area hikers pass right by without ever noticing, but a careful eye can spot tiny towers rising up from the forest floor. These mysterious little tubes, barely an inch high, are the homes of a ...

Deep in Madagascar’s rainforests lives a spider no bigger than a coin, easy to miss and rarely noticed. Yet this tiny ...