Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to an increase in environmental noise. By now, residents have grown used to the sounds of traffic, airplanes, construction, and more noises that ...

Spiders are amazing creatures, and orb-weaving spiders make some of the most intricate structures in nature. Their ...

Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake cobwebs and horror movies depict giant spiders hunting humans or creeping around ...