The earliest evidence of spiders' fangs has been identified in a 518-million-year-old fossil by scientists at the University ...

Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found “ballista” spider uses a springy snare to catch prey.

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

When a spider bites, it typically leaves two puncture marks on the skin, a hallmark of arachnid encounters. In the United States, there are over 3,500 species of spiders, but only a handful are known ...

Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in ...

Unravel the mysteries surrounding the Sydney funnel web spider, often regarded as the deadliest. This documentary reveals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These web weavers have been found in shipping containers full of tropical yellow fruit, thus earning the moniker “banana spiders.” ...

There's more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build horizontal ...

It may have only taken one radioactive spider bite for Peter Parker to become Spider-Man, but everyone else can rest easy: Spider bites are rare, and most of the time, they can be treated at home.