They called it Damarchus inazuma, after a Japanese manga character in the "One Piece." ...

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

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

Spiders often appear in homes for simple reasons, such as seeking shelter and food. Most of the species are not only harmless but also eat the insects in your home that you dislike.

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 ...

Researchers collected the unfortunate arachnids near grottos and caves in Rio de Janeiro state, a region similar to where ...

Stink bugs are wildly invasive and destructive. Mosquito populations have been rising due to wetter, warmer weather, ...

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

You probably think of snakes as fearsome predators that sit near the top of the food chain. While that is often true, snakes ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...