Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...

A nocturnal spider in the East Asian subtropical forests has created an unusual hunting strategy. This cunning predator is a nocturnal sheet web spider, Psechrus clavis, which captures fireflies as ...

So I'm thinking we've all seen a spider spinning a web at some point - probably a web that functions as a kind of barrier to ensnare unsuspecting insects. Turns out another kind of spider uses its web ...

This high-velocity maneuver is a nightmare if you're a fly. There's a type of spider that can slowly stretch its web taut and then release it, causing the web to catapult forward and ensnare ...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Scientists now know some spiders are smart enough to do both, bringing fresh meaning to the famous quote from poet Sir Walter Scott.

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...

The long-standing mystery around why spider webs sometimes feature "extra touches" known as stabilimenta has been revisited in a new study which suggests that their wave-propagation effects could help ...