Discover spider insights from Dr. Echeverri, a science communicator, author, wildlife photographer, and spider expert.

Embellishments called stabilimenta helped propagate waves along simulated spider webs when prey landed on them, shedding new ...

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.

One scenario is that the spider stands in one place (say, on a limb) and begins releasing a strand of the web material from ...