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

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

Discover why only female Darwin's bark spiders produce the strongest silk, surpassing steel in toughness and strength.

Scientists have officially brought genetic engineering to the spider's web. For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk. Led by a team at the ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...

A giant spider web spanning 32 pyeong (approximately 106 square meters) was discovered in a sulfur cave near the border between Greece and Albania. According to science media Live Science on the 7th, ...

Spiders are nature’s skilled architects, known for weaving intricate webs that act as traps and homes. Surprisingly, they don’t abandon old or damaged webs; they eat them. This behaviour allows ...