When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Spider silk occupies a distinct place in natural materials science for its combination of mechanical strength, toughness and ...