We’ve not found fossils before that showed this, and so finding this now was a huge (but really fantastic) surprise,” ...

The silk glands of the Western black widow Latrodectus hesperus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 are morphologically and functionally distinct. Studies of spider silk glands often show only high magnification ...

Digital wizardry has allowed scientists to see the insides of a 53-million-year-old fossilized spider in 3-D. The male spider is about the size of a pinhead (or a stack of three salt grains) and lived ...

SAN ANTONIO — One of the world's most misunderstood creatures is the focus of the Witte Museum's newest interactive exhibit. "Spiders - From Fear to Fascination" aims to helps guests better understand ...

Scientists have unlocked the secrets of how some predatory spiders catch their prey whilst hunting by successfully training one to jump different distances and heights for the first time. The study, ...