Spiders in your home may look scary, but they cut pests, signal a healthy environment, and offer surprising hidden benefits.

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 ...

A funnel weaver spider sits on its intricate web that collects everything from prey to microscopic dust particles. A group of about a dozen community activists, scientists, and volunteers advanced ...

Frozen in time 112 million years ago, an entire ecosystem preserved in amber has been unearthed from a quarry in Ecuador. The ...