Females are a dull brownish gray but — like their namesake, the peacock — male sparklemuffins pull out all the stops in the ...

Spider-Man’s web fluid dates back to the character’s ... forming fibers instantaneously,” Lo Presti writes in his paper. “This work presents the very first example of a distance adhesive.

This spider's bite is much feared because its venom ... Spiderlings disperse soon after they leave their eggs, but the web remains. Black widow spiders also use their webs to ensnare their prey ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...