Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

A new study challenges traditional views on arachnid evolution, suggesting that the transition from water to land occurred multiple times rather than in a single event. The research also highlights ...

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

A discovery in northern Germany has revealed one of the world’s oldest and best-preserved spider fossils. Dating back more than 310 million years, the fossilised arachnid, named Arthrolycosa ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...