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

Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house spider (aka common house spider) is more friend than foe. What they look like: The ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

(WGHP) — We’ve all been doing yard work or cleaning out the basement and experienced that jolt of fear when a spider crawls out from nowhere right towards us. Stay on top of breaking news and weather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A macro shot of a jumping spider covered in tiny ice crystals, sitting on a frost-dusted leaf in a winter landscape.© A-Z Animals ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California’s coastal sand dunes. The newly identified Aptostichus ramirezae is a close ...

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

Even thousands of feet below the water's surface, no arachnophobe is truly safe from spiders. And, thanks to a discovery by a team of scientists, three more species have been added to the list of ...