New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. While these spiders have evolved socially similar behaviors -- living in large family groups that share both ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is often linked to lifestyle: predators such as lions tend to have ...

Anewly identified spider from the tropical rainforests of northern Australia has unveiled a hunting technique unlike any previously recorded. The species, dubbed the “ballista spider,” uses a ...

It’s giant house spider season again in Oregon, where adult males leave their shelters and roam in search of females. These ...

Take a walk in French Guiana’s tropical rainforests, and you’ll encounter giant spiderwebs longer than a school bus. Inside, thousands of tiny, quarter-inch-long spiders wait for their prey to be ...

New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. Spiders are normally solitary creatures but a few species have evolved to be social and live in groups, ...