High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 17—May is a month filled with nature happenings. The temperatures are warming, though frost still may be with us. May can be a ...

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.

Spider webs present an intriguing challenge to evolutionary biologists. These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the ...

Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

I’ve found this beauty the last few years waiting for her dinner on her web woven on my Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia). Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae and are the most ...

Spiders have been active since the weather began to warm in spring. They have grown and changed much but are still with us now as the summer season approaches the end. We tend to think of webs when it ...

We see silken spider webs in all kinds of places — in a corner of the garage that hasn’t seen a broom in months, in a window that was unoccupied yesterday, among some forked twigs as densely packed ...