Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

Little did Sandra Sánchez know when she saw some small, unusual tunnels at a North Taranaki Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) that they were the home of a potential new species of spider. The Taranaki ...

Spider web “decorations” may help arachnids to pinpoint the location of their captured prey, suggests a study. The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support. GOP congressman splits with Trump ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requires precise, split-second decision making on ...

Scientists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava A zombie fungus that springs from a trapdoor and a flame-like shrub named after the fire ...

Citharacanthus cyaneus, the Cuban orange and violet tarantula, is popular in the pet trade for its vivid metallic violet and coppery-orange coloring. There are over 700 islands in the Caribbean Sea, ...

I got a picture of this owl in the headlights of my car on a fence near my home. What type of owl is it? Ger Fitzgerald, Co Kilkenny This is a barn owl, the scarcer of our two breeding owl species. It ...

Arboreal taranulas in the Avicularia, Amazonias, Psalmopoeus, and Tapinauchenius genera rely on the Andes mountain forests in the northwest or the Amazon rainforests in the south. There are nearly 50 ...

An author who branded her Adelaide Writers’ Week axing as “censorship” faces explosive backlash after a letter asking to cancel a Jewish writer from the same festival was uncovered. Premier Peter ...

There is only one way to get the Arctic Mutation in the game (Image via Roblox) Grow a Garden's recent Christmas update added a bunch of new mutations to the game, allowing players to profit even more ...