A giant funnel-web spider, named Hemsworth, has been recognized as the largest of its kind ever recorded by the Australian Reptile Park.Found in Newcastle, about 120 kilometers north of Sydney ...

The researchers at Tufts University have created a real-life version of Spider-Man's web-shooters, and it’s not just some sticky string in a can. This is cutting-edge biomimicry at its finest.

While cleaning his glassware with acetone in what he calls a moment of serendipity, he noticed something: a web-like material forming on the bottom of the glass. You could say his Spider-Sense ...

If you ask a child to draw a spider’s web, this is what you will get! Orb webs have the classic circular net appearance and are visible in gardens on dewy mornings. Several types of spiders use ...

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Not content to rely on pure happenstance, the spider, Araneus ventricosus, has found a way to hack the firefly’s bioluminescent signals to lure more fireflies to its web, new research has found.

Walking into a spider web might make you panic, even if it’s only a few feet wide. Now imagine colliding into one over 80 feet long. That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

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 ...

First up is Web of Spider-Verse, which sees the Web-Heart scour the Web of Life and Destiny after choosing its first combatants: a leader (Peter Parker of Earth-616), a wild card (Spider-Ham), a ...