An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

If you despise spiders, then you know the struggle seeing these creepy crawlers make their way into homes and gardens during the autumn season. While most types of spiders commonly seen at home are ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...

For the longest time, South America's amber deposits lacked one thing, and one thing in particular, and that's bugs. But a September 2025 study in Communications Earth & Environment describes the ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the ...

Spiders originated in the sea half a billion years ago, suggests a new study. Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

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