Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Even snake catchers can be caught off guard by nature every now and then. When snake catcher Steve Meighan went to turn ...

A spider of the Leptonetela genus stands on its web. (Jie Liu/Hubei University) (CN) — A family of eyeless spiders dwelling in dark caves can sense light. Approximately one to three millimeters in ...

Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school students ...

Scientists discovered that certain spiders can force trapped fireflies to mimic the light signals of female insects, allowing them to lure and trap other males. Reading time 3 minutes Some spiders ...

One of the interesting things about space is that it's hard to tell which way is up in micro or no gravity. Scientists have been sending spiders into space to see how the spider's web-making ability ...

Biologist Brian Gall was flinging stowaway spiders out of his kayak when he noticed an interesting pattern: After landing on the water’s surface, the arachnids quickly darted to the nearest shoreline, ...