Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

Sept. 4 -- — Scientists are finally closing in on the answers to a puzzle that has perplexed them for centuries: How does a spider spin a web of silk that is five times stronger, on a ...

The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock ...

ATHENS, Greece -- It's not quite the World Wide Web - but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, ...

Spiders are more commonly known for spinning intricate webs and trapping other insects for dinner, but there are species of jumping spiders that have the ability to leap distances 50 times their body ...

Just as the weather starts to turn, the spiders start to come out. Spider season has arrived for western Washington.

When I first saw it, I was unsure what kind of arachnid it was,” said Russell Garwood, a paleontologist at the University of ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music -- creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the ...