Take the dewdrop spiders, a group of tiny tropical species that specialise in pilfering prey caught by larger orb-web spiders ...

A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

Spiders might make you shiver, but they're also some of the most fascinating creatures out there. With their intricate webs and mind-blowing survival skills, these eight-legged wonders do way more ...

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class Arachnida (a.k.a. arachnid). Besides spiders, other arachnids include ...