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 ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

You would think that a spider with legs over a foot wide is the stuff of fiction or nightmares. No, these massive spiders exist in our world today as seen in this incredible video of the largest ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

Spelunkers found a giant spider 'super-city' in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania. The massive webbed structure, in the depths of the Sulfur Cave, is over 100 square meters, consisting of ...