An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...
They called it Damarchus inazuma, after a Japanese manga character in the "One Piece." ...
The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...
Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...
Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...